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The CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.
Yahoo News, November 2, 2018
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html
Many people were killed!!!!
This is quite a long article, btw.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)In fact, the Iranians used Google to identify the website the CIA was using to communicate with agents. Because Google is continuously scraping the internet for information about all the worlds websites, it can function as a tremendous investigative tool even for counter-espionage purposes. And Googles search functions allow users to employ advanced operators like AND, OR, and other, much more sophisticated ones that weed out and isolate websites and online data with extreme specificity.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)The article states that the communication net the CIA was using to communicate with agents was not sophisticated nor secure enough, so that simple Google searches could reveal users!
This is extremely concerning.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)My reference was to the fact that Google was also used by those hacking our elections. In addition, most responsible, major media sources review and withhold information that could harm our intelligence community.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)And Ledeen and his wife were still active in 2016 trying to hack Hillarys emails