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Spy Kids
- UnixSchizoid 3y ago[flagged]
- parpfish 3y agoIs this a “The Last Starfighter”-esque recruitment tool?
- dataviz1000 3y agoThis was my first thought. Your kids start working on these puzzles and the next thing you know Yale and MIT are trying to recruit them.
- adolph 3y agoNo the “Ender’s Game” one where they think they are training but are actually killing bugs.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoThis reminds me a bit of the Wolf Orchestra, from Charles Stross's "Merchant Princes" series.
- samplatt 3y agoMy first thought, too. Fuck that was an amazing piece of worldbuilding. Really allowed me to recognise the sorts of shell-games people play everywhere in everyday life: the more "strategic" social butterflies, the corporate power plays.
- ano88888 3y agoAs a country, it is important that you have smart spies and the way to recruit is to identify potential candidates when they are young and nurture them. But as a parent, it will be your most important responsibility to prevent your kids from falling into this seemingly cool traps and become a spy which will not be a good life for your kids.
- codetrotter 3y agoThat’s ok. If you don’t want your kids to be spies in the future, just say some stuff online that the agencies will dislike but which is not illegal to say. Hopefully that will discourage them from recruiting your children in the future. After all, who would want to hire the sons and daughters of a person who raised them with views that run so obviously counter to the opinions of the agencies. Edward Snowden is a humanitarian hero, and I will raise my kids to know that that is true :)
- keepamovin 3y agoIf you discovered that Snowden was actually the patsy for a limited hangout operation designed to protect the sector from declining regulatory and congressional will in a post-911 market...still a hero?
- FormerBandmate 3y agoRussia and China are getting them more funding
- keepamovin 3y agoI agree the 'whole of agency' funding thing doesn't really make sense. Look at all the budgets, they dip, slightly, around that time then continue their upward or stable trends, as least publicly. Maybe the NSA really did get a budget win in the years post 2013. Regardless, it was just too good to be true, tho, as a leak. Don't you think? I think the most likely scenario is, it was a "false flag" "own goal"/self-inflicted wound, that then necessitated useful and remunerative healing and mending by restructuring and getting congress back on their side. Probably hastily executed in response to some looming threat: like they were going to merge NSA with some other agency, aggressively restructure, etc. So, from one point of view, yes, Snowden is a patriot and a hero for playing the role of patsy in a scheme to save the US intelligence community from muddleheaded regulators, or whomever. But from another point of view, the conventional "public" one, if that's true, he's not. But, the way it was designed is very clever: everybody wins! Public gets happy that they are now more safe and private. IT sector gets happy with a new shiny product "privacy". Defence and intelligence gets happy because they have to be "saved" by congress from the damage done by the leaks to vital national security. Who knows maybe there was even an aspect of long game preparation to raise public awareness about privacy to prevent the eroding away of US internet company customer base by Chinese competitors thrown into the mix?
- dj_gitmo 3y agoI was just reminiscing about the days when every random website had a “games” section. We got to bring that back.
- boomboomsubban 3y ago"Spy Kids" has a trademark and sells video games, I don't see why this isn't trademark infringement. Surely the CIA would be aware, could Disney have approved it? Wouldn't there be notice at the bottom then?
- frankfrankfrank 3y ago[dead]
- stjohnswarts 3y agoI would guess because it's “spy game” and not “spy kids”. Seems like there is no way those could be confused.
- SamBam 3y ago"Spy Kids" is at the top of the website.
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- cempaka 3y agoI mean, the CIA helped Walt Disney set up the insane property deals he used to build Disneyworld, so it's not outside the realm of possibility. edit: oh, I misread your comment and thought the CIA page was making some specific references to "spy kids." But now that I've looked, what's there doesn't seem to infringe on anything.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoThe top banner say "Spy Kids." They definitely have a relationship, it's whether this is part of it I'm unclear of.
- Uehreka 3y agoIf this site was made recently, it’s possible that it was released with that title and slipped through without oversight (I would guess that this page is the CIA’s millionth priority). Perhaps the page getting attention will cause them to take a closer look and change it.
- King-Aaron 3y agolol what on earth are those colouring-in characters
- beej71 3y agoI don't know, but there's an excellent possibility those drawings are in the public domain...
- ekianjo 3y agoWhats next CIA? Assasination and coup simulator?
- scrum-treats 3y agoI believe the correct euphemism is "strategic engagement."
- dang 3y agoRelated. Was there more? Spy Kids [CIA children's site] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23409312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23409312 - June 2020 (1 comment)
- ajhurliman 3y agoJeez, lots of hate in the thread for some kids games.
- pier25 3y ago> Which game will you play today? I can't be the only one who was hoping for a thermonuclear war option :)
- ackbar03 3y agoI was expecting a "go to Ukraine and gather Intel for us" option
- rdtsc 3y agoThose look like fun activities. The list can be expanded and made a lot more fun: * See if you can make your sibling confess to eating an extra scoop of ice-cream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_CIA_torture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_... * Slip some substances in your parents drinks and see if they'll tell you the password to the bank account so you can buy whatever you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra * Jealous how this one kid at school is too influential? Let's see if you can ruin their reputation and maybe put them in the hospital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoThis could be an episode of Today, Now (the morning show of the Onion).
- MagicMoonlight 3y agoI mean if you know your sibling has just placed bombs on 42 ice cream trucks in order to shut down nationwide ice cream distribution (they don’t want you to have any) then I think it would be reasonable to use enhanced investigation
- gatlin 3y agoTo continue torturing this analogy it's very likely your proverbial sibling was trained by the CIA in the first place.
- rdtsc 3y agoExactly! Extra bonus points if you can avoid leaving traces or your work and manage to plausibly deny the methods you used when questioned by parents. Hint: it's not "waterboarding" if you don't use water. What other liquids might you use? What does your gas station sell?.
- kayge 3y ago
- scrum-treats 3y agoPlayed the Aerial Analysis challenge. There's a bit of overfitting/oversimplification on a couple questions. For instance, how can you be for sure the town is industrial just because you see 5 buildings? Also, who's to say danger isn't lurking at the park masked as celebration? We all remember JFK in Dallas.