Failing again. Failing better.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a “what if” post, but Wired’s Danger Room posted a story that was too good to resist. The story summarizes nine secret military programs that have experienced leaks to varying degrees. The programs include the USS Jimmy Carter, a specially-equipped spy sub; the Air Force’s X-37B space plane…
Yesterday, Boing Boing commented on a Bloomberg Businessweek article describing Palantir, a threat-tracking software. Originally developed as a way to detect criminals using PayPal for illicit purposes, Palantir tracks seemingly innocuous data points to determine whether a terrorist plot is in the works. More importantly, it has the ability to raise alarms before the attack…
Stories are circulating today trying to explain why CIA assets in Lebanon may have been rolled up by Hezbollah. The stories, if true, point to lazy tradecraft by CIA officers who were tasked with spying on the Iran-backed terrorist group. Even worse is that CIA officers working in Lebanon had been warned against such laziness…
As described here in an article by Wired (@Wired) magazine’s Danger Room (@dangerroom), General Stanley McChrystal, former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, transformed the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), into a network somewhat similar to the structure of Al Qaeda. McChrystal worked with the CIA, the State Department, the NSA, and other intelligence officials to combine…