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CIA communications compromised

2018-11-02 22:10:58.439103+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

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: 2018-11-03 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.

#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.