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I wonder how much of CIA spycraft has been made obsolete because of social media? In the past finding out who someone's family, friends, interests, political l
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago
I wonder how much of CIA spycraft has been made obsolete because of social media?
In the past finding out who someone's family, friends, interests, political leanings, where they travel, and skills might involve sending a human to secretly follow them around. Now you can just see who their family and friends on Facebook are, look at their daugther's Instagram page to see where the family has traveled, see their comments on reddit to know their political leanings, and looked at LinkedIn to see what skills they have.
- blantonl 7y agoCIA agents are trained to be perfectly just like "one of us" leading apparently normal lives. There are most likely CIA agents among us here on Hacker News... functioning as technology executives, sales people, engineers, developers, etc
- Mirioron 7y ago>technology executives I've always wondered what the upper limit for this is. How high up on the social/wealth ladder do you have to go for there to essentially be no chance that the person is an intelligence officer?
- ImprovedSilence 7y agoValid. Why work for a gov pension when your stock bonus is 7+ figures a year.
- Der_Einzige 7y agoThe higher you go in the ladder the more likely you are to be talking to a spook
- velosol 7y agoGilman Louie says hi ;) .
- agota 7y agoI love this The Onion video that is a news report on the CIA's most successful project ever, Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0