The game of spying

He did all kinds of stuff after all…

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A lot of us hope our children will do more good/be more successful than we are, but for the mega-rich maybe the wish is that their children’s crimes will overshadow their own?

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The mega-richs’ wish is that whatever their kids do to maintain the dynasty won’t be a crime.
As in “not against the law”. Actually, or if needs be, at least technically. And they are working hard to make this happen. Well, their lobbyists work hard at it. And the ROI is incredible.

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Brussels imposes sanctions on Murmansk fishery industry

The EC Council accuses two major fishery companies in Murmansk of espionage and ‘activities that can facilitate future sabotage operations.’ The Norebo and the Murman Seafood Company are included in the 17th Sanctions Package of the European Union.

(Onebox renders the preview wrong, article is in English.)

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[…] America’s 18 intelligence agencies*) commissioned a chatbot that has now been deployed across all of them, including the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency.

“Making it possible for us to use AI applications in the top-secret clouds has been a game changer,” Gabbard said on stage during the keynote address.

The “top-secret clouds” that Gabbard referenced are designed to process and store sensitive information up to the “Secret” classification level.

AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud each have their own offerings that meet the security standards of US government agencies, including the intelligence community.

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So, any bets on which agency’s summer intern messes up some configuration or other and exposes juicy data to all and sundry?

*) "18 intelligence agencies"

Depends somewhat on how you count them; there is a lot of overlap, parallelity and redundancy. Pick any random number between 20 and, say 40×) and you won’t be wrong as such, technically.

I read this here as the United States Intelligence Communitya) plus the FBI; it would fit the org chart anyway.

a) Which is 17 agencies under the DNI/ODNI. Counting the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Security Service (CSS)1) as one agency and not counting the DEA2) or the DOE.3)

1) Which consists of the Service Cryptologic Components which include the Army Intelligence and Security Command, Marine Corps Information Command, Navy Fleet Cyber Command, Sixteenth Air Force, United States Space Force, and Coast Guard Deputy Assistant Commandant for Intelligence.

2) The DEA has an intelligence unit which is part of the DEA chain-of-command, but also reports to the DNI.

3) The DOE’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, which reports to both the Secretary of Energy and the DNI.

×) Seriously, I’ve lost count. There may be more. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the Department of Agriculture had an intelligence unit that spies on the Chinese space programme or whatever.

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Q becomes C

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