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>>> complete destruction of our Chinese hint network by the Chinese, huh? what where when? I don't disbelief you but what was this complete destruction, when

• anamexis 7y ago
  Probably a reference to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
  • secfirstmd 7y ago
    AFAIK that is basically what has happened in Iran, China, Lebanon and a lot of Russia in the past 10 years.
    • boomboomsubban 7y ago
      It happened because the CIA used shitty encryption. Someone warned them before it happened and again while it happened, and they fired him for it. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/iran_cracked_cia_google/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/iran_cracked_cia_go...
      • secfirstmd 7y ago
        It's not just about encryption. That is the case for Iran and some of China. For the rest it was terrible tradecraft and counterintelligence issues.
        • boomboomsubban 7y ago
          The piece about Iran mentions them sharing it with friendly nations, which likely included Lebanon. I haven't heard of events like that in Russia recently, an arrest or two but nothing major. And the encryption seems responsible for most of the Chinese events, the "mole" seemed like an attempt to push the blame elsewhere. Most of the public incidents in the past ten years seems related to that CIA failure, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
• ackbar03 7y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17771096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17771096 This was pretty big