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Really? I would think the opposite. Anything posted on the CIA website will be thoroughly analyzed by state agencies that are well funded and well equipped to

Really? I would think the opposite. Anything posted on the CIA website will be thoroughly analyzed by state agencies that are well funded and well equipped to find shenanigans. If the CIA were really doing something to US citizens via something on their public site, it would come out very quickly as it would be an embarrassment to the agency. Unless you mean that the mere act of visiting the CIA website would be suspicious because you are in a country that might frown upon that, like China? But wouldn’t the CIA site be blocked there anyway?

lo_zamoyski 3y ago
> Anything posted on the CIA website will be thoroughly analyzed by state agencies that are well funded and well equipped to find shenanigans. Comedy gold.
- landryraccoon 3y ago
  You don’t think that China and Russia are thoroughly analyzing everything posted on the CIA site?
  - DANmode 3y ago
    You missed the other qualifiers, at least one of which is important to the debate.
- 111111IIIIIII 3y ago
  It must be sarcasm. Please tell me it's sarcasm. It's sarcasm, right?
autoexec 3y ago
Maybe you're right, but I wouldn't assume that everyone, from every IP, who requests a file hosted on the CIA's webserver would necessarily always be served the same content either I'm not saying you shouldn't check it out for yourself though. While you're at it, maybe the NSA has interesting looking .swf .vbs or MS office documents sitting around at their domain.
- landryraccoon 3y ago
  I just don’t get how the risk/reward works out in their favor. The uproar if their malfeasance is detected is far more than the value of any information they would gain. Wouldn’t it be far simpler and more direct for them to go to Google or Facebook and ask them to hand over everything they have on you, at which point those companies almost certainly comply?
  - autoexec 3y ago
    You're absolutely right, and I'm mostly kidding. If the CIA, or pretty much any three letter agency, wanted to inject something nasty into your internet traffic or infect your device with malware I'm certain that they could do it without uploading ironically named ebooks to their server and waiting for someone to post about it on social media. Still... from a risk/reward perspective, I can pirate this book from somewhere else just as easily
  - Solvency 3y ago
    The CIA has zero legal power to make such a request. ...though I imagine they have several illegal methods.
    - landryraccoon 3y ago
      If legality is stopping them then you have nothing to fear. They can’t legally hack your computer for visiting their public site either.
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theknocker 3y ago
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thumbuddy 3y ago
Did you inspect the PDF for command and control viruses?
FrustratedMonky 3y ago
No man, because it's the C-I-A, they have tagged the PDF to track who is reading this.

lo_zamoyski 3y ago

> Anything posted on the CIA website will be thoroughly analyzed by state agencies that are well funded and well equipped to find shenanigans. Comedy gold.

landryraccoon 3y ago
You don’t think that China and Russia are thoroughly analyzing everything posted on the CIA site?
- DANmode 3y ago
  You missed the other qualifiers, at least one of which is important to the debate.
111111IIIIIII 3y ago
It must be sarcasm. Please tell me it's sarcasm. It's sarcasm, right?

autoexec 3y ago

Maybe you're right, but I wouldn't assume that everyone, from every IP, who requests a file hosted on the CIA's webserver would necessarily always be served the same content either I'm not saying you shouldn't check it out for yourself though. While you're at it, maybe the NSA has interesting looking .swf .vbs or MS office documents sitting around at their domain.

landryraccoon 3y ago
I just don’t get how the risk/reward works out in their favor. The uproar if their malfeasance is detected is far more than the value of any information they would gain. Wouldn’t it be far simpler and more direct for them to go to Google or Facebook and ask them to hand over everything they have on you, at which point those companies almost certainly comply?
- autoexec 3y ago
  You're absolutely right, and I'm mostly kidding. If the CIA, or pretty much any three letter agency, wanted to inject something nasty into your internet traffic or infect your device with malware I'm certain that they could do it without uploading ironically named ebooks to their server and waiting for someone to post about it on social media. Still... from a risk/reward perspective, I can pirate this book from somewhere else just as easily
- Solvency 3y ago
  The CIA has zero legal power to make such a request. ...though I imagine they have several illegal methods.
  - landryraccoon 3y ago
    If legality is stopping them then you have nothing to fear. They can’t legally hack your computer for visiting their public site either.

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theknocker 3y ago

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thumbuddy 3y ago

Did you inspect the PDF for command and control viruses?

FrustratedMonky 3y ago

No man, because it's the C-I-A, they have tagged the PDF to track who is reading this.