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Lately this seems to be virtually every story related to “spygate” from the times. One persons “scoop” is another powerful person’s attempt to shape narrative.

yeahitslikethat 7y ago
The ufo conspiracies are an example of this. The government promoted ufo stories to distract from the real stories.
- Mtinie 7y ago
  As an insider please let us know, what are the real stories?
  - yeahitslikethat 7y ago
    "According to later estimates from CIA officials who worked on the U-2 project and the OXCART (SR-71, or Blackbird) project, over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights (namely the U-2) over the United States. (45) This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project. While perhaps justified, this deception added fuel to the later conspiracy theories and the coverup controversy of the 1970s. The percentage of what the Air Force considered unexplained UFO sightings fell to 5.9 percent in 1955 and to 4 percent in 1956. (46)" Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/97unclass/ufo.html https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
sixothree 7y ago
Listened to their daily podcast today on my way to work. It was about China's spying on it citizens. It focused on the number and type of CCTV cameras they are exposed to - specifically license plate readers at intersections. Not more than a mile later I passed an intersection with license plate readers for every lane in every direction. I seriously doubt there are strict controls on the police who have access to this data. But the article somehow suggested I should be worried about they spying China is doing.
noelsusman 7y ago
This article is just a write-up of the report Symantec released today, giving some more context. https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/buckeye-windows-zero-day-exploit https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/buckeye-w...

yeahitslikethat 7y ago

The ufo conspiracies are an example of this. The government promoted ufo stories to distract from the real stories.

Mtinie 7y ago
As an insider please let us know, what are the real stories?
- yeahitslikethat 7y ago
  "According to later estimates from CIA officials who worked on the U-2 project and the OXCART (SR-71, or Blackbird) project, over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights (namely the U-2) over the United States. (45) This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project. While perhaps justified, this deception added fuel to the later conspiracy theories and the coverup controversy of the 1970s. The percentage of what the Air Force considered unexplained UFO sightings fell to 5.9 percent in 1955 and to 4 percent in 1956. (46)" Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/97unclass/ufo.html https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

sixothree 7y ago

Listened to their daily podcast today on my way to work. It was about China's spying on it citizens. It focused on the number and type of CCTV cameras they are exposed to - specifically license plate readers at intersections. Not more than a mile later I passed an intersection with license plate readers for every lane in every direction. I seriously doubt there are strict controls on the police who have access to this data. But the article somehow suggested I should be worried about they spying China is doing.

noelsusman 7y ago

This article is just a write-up of the report Symantec released today, giving some more context. https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/buckeye-windows-zero-day-exploit https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/buckeye-w...