CIA communications compromised
2018-11-02 22:10:58.439103+01 by
Dan Lyke
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The CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.
According to the former intelligence official, once the Iranian double agent showed Iranian intelligence the website used to communicate with his or her CIA handlers, they began to scour the internet for websites with similar digital signifiers or components — eventually hitting on the right string of advanced search terms to locate other secret CIA websites. From there, Iranian intelligence tracked who was visiting these sites, and from where, and began to unravel the wider CIA network.
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#Comment Re: CIA communications compromised made: 2018-11-05 23:50:48.030041+01 by:
Dan Lyke
The Metafilter Thread has a bunch of new links, including some pretty damning notes about whistleblowers and such.
#Comment Re: CIA communications compromised made: 2018-11-03 15:06:33.544991+01 by:
DaveP
To be fair, who could’ve expected that some company like google would try to index the entire
internet?
Sigh.
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