• Magos_Galactose@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    And all those guys were purged when the Iranians found a security breach in the american intelligence networks, got the informants’ names and sent the list to Russia and China.

    I need to hear more about that part.

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communications-system-helped-blow-cover-chinese-agents-intelligence/

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh_q02eefFM

      @manuallybreathing@hexbear.net I don't have better sources on the repercussions of the aldritch ames incident on me, but while the youtube video talks about the CIA comms failure it does touch on the aldritch ames indicent at the start.

      • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]
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        11 months ago

        https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communications-system-helped-blow-cover-chinese-agents-intelligence/

        "But the CIA’s interim system contained a technical error: It connected back architecturally to the CIA’s main covert communications platform"

        "U.S. intelligence officers were also able to identify digital links between the covert communications system and the U.S. government itself, according to one former official—links the Chinese agencies almost certainly found as well. These digital links would have made it relatively easy for China to deduce that the covert communications system was being used by the CIA."

        How do they say... "we kill based on metadata". A taste of their own medicine.