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"As a totalitarian society, the Soviet Union valued eavesdropping and thus developed ingenious methods to accomplish it." (page 2)

robin_reala 11y ago
As opposed to the US, which developed no eavesdropping methods or bugs at all.
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megalodon 11y ago
"The GUNMAN project had a major impact on the intelligence community as a whole. It brought about a greater understanding of the thinking and operations in a totalitarian society. The community became more aware of the hostile electronic threat against the U.S. As <redacted> explained, "If any other agency such as CIA or the State Department had discovered the bug, this change would not have occurred because they would not have publicized the incident." NSA, however, briefed all levels of government to warn them of the danger. NSA was not out to assess blame; it took the problem-solving approach." (p. 17)
phkahler 11y ago
I stopped reading, copied the exact same text to post as a comment and see it's already at the top...
- noahshpak 11y ago
  Just did the same thing. I love this place
- biot 11y ago
  Just think: if everybody posted article snippets with no commentary, we could crowdsource the entire article being redundantly posted piecemeal to HN and nobody would need to click through to the article at all.
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mariodiana 11y ago
The word "totalitarian" is hyphenated, to make the line justified. Anyone else try to search for the phrase with a Ctrl-F, come up with zero, and jump to the conclusion that the spooks had redacted the document? I should perhaps look into having my paranoia treated.
innguest 11y ago
But when I say the US has many communist highlights in its long grey hair, I get downvoted. It's as if Obama was never indoctrinated by Communist Frank Marshall Davis (who was under FBI investigation for we don't know what) and learned to hate white people, capitalism, self-made people, small-business owners... or as Obama would surely call them, the proletariat. Crazy times.

robin_reala 11y ago

As opposed to the US, which developed no eavesdropping methods or bugs at all.

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megalodon 11y ago

"The GUNMAN project had a major impact on the intelligence community as a whole. It brought about a greater understanding of the thinking and operations in a totalitarian society. The community became more aware of the hostile electronic threat against the U.S. As <redacted> explained, "If any other agency such as CIA or the State Department had discovered the bug, this change would not have occurred because they would not have publicized the incident." NSA, however, briefed all levels of government to warn them of the danger. NSA was not out to assess blame; it took the problem-solving approach." (p. 17)

phkahler 11y ago

I stopped reading, copied the exact same text to post as a comment and see it's already at the top...

noahshpak 11y ago
Just did the same thing. I love this place
biot 11y ago
Just think: if everybody posted article snippets with no commentary, we could crowdsource the entire article being redundantly posted piecemeal to HN and nobody would need to click through to the article at all.

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mariodiana 11y ago

The word "totalitarian" is hyphenated, to make the line justified. Anyone else try to search for the phrase with a Ctrl-F, come up with zero, and jump to the conclusion that the spooks had redacted the document? I should perhaps look into having my paranoia treated.

innguest 11y ago

But when I say the US has many communist highlights in its long grey hair, I get downvoted. It's as if Obama was never indoctrinated by Communist Frank Marshall Davis (who was under FBI investigation for we don't know what) and learned to hate white people, capitalism, self-made people, small-business owners... or as Obama would surely call them, the proletariat. Crazy times.