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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used a quick and dirty web-based system to communicate with its agents around the world. Easy-to-use but not sophisticated. Iran and China used this system to find U.S. spies and convert or kill many agents, including entire national spy networks, starting around 2008.
Once you recognized the system, counter-spies could simply use Google to find the CIA's communication sites. They could then use standard traffic analysis to find out who visited the sites, identifying the spy networks.
Iran found spies using the system, converted some to double agents, while killing dozens of others. Iran may have passed the info to China, who wiped out the CIA network there, turning and killing 30+ agents. Iran then went spy hunting across the Middle East, too.
The absolute kicker: a CIA tech contractor identified the problem, that the network was compromised and spies were disappearing due to it, and reported it up the chain in 2008. He was ignored, punished and fired. Part of the reason we know this all happened is because he filed a federal whistleblower protection lawsuit.
So many/most of these U.S. agents would not be dead if CIA management AND the CIA inspector general had listened and acted on the report of a technical/security problem. Instead they denied they had a problem, burying their heads and their agents in the sand. Not only is the CIA riddled with terrible torture monkeys, but also deadly, incompetent, and inept management.
Article: The CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.
Previously: CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012
Ex-CIA Officer Arrested, Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Monday November 05 2018, @06:18PM (2 children)
I said you but I could say we because EU is on the same page.
If whistleblowing were a grave act but doable without becoming the target of reprisals, the guy could have leaked his story to the public.
Remember the OOOOH SNOOOOWDEN HE PUT LIVES AT RIIISK!
Well, here's your real networks compromised. Your real spies snuffed. Try to spin it against trumptards or hitlary followers all you want, but it's basically deep state against us (or even worse, these wars between secret services are mere intestine wars, and the system is already one, no borders, yay).
How you defeat deep state? well start by not caving in to eastern block tactics of pitting citizens against citizens. Peons should not hurt each other if possible.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @08:10PM (1 child)
What does that mean? Everybody shits over each other?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday November 05 2018, @10:45PM
First definition of the first google entry for 'intestine'.
intestine adjective
in·tes·tine | \in-ˈte-stən
\
Definition of intestine
(Entry 1 of 2)
: internal specifically : of or relating to the internal affairs of a state or country
intestine war
Or were you trying to be funny? in that case, ha, ha.
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