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IT at the CIA
neocon writes "The current issue of the CIA's Studies in Intelligence (unclassified edition, natch) has
an article on the state
of IT within the CIA, titled 'Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution', which
looks at how the agency has fared in staying up to date both with information security needs
and with promising new technologies."
I saw Spy Games, so I already know how out of date the CIA is!
As well as how vulnerable they are to social engineering...
TUTMA - They Use Too Many Acronyms
"We don't use a firewall. We use an air gap."
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
Editing out the more sensitive bits (I'll put periods in for the text), here's what it says:
b el ong....to....us...."
"...all.....your......base......are.....not....
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
Everybody knows the "declassified" version is just a diversionary tactic to make us THINK the agency is behind the times, IT-wise. In reality, they've slipped nanites into everyone's drinking water to track the populace's movements and habits, beaming the data through the ether to the giant mainframe computers under Mt. Weather (where the CIA also happens to keep its massive drug stash).
Remember, just because you're paranoid...
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
In the news: Hackers at a web site called 'slash-dot' (we believe it to be a hate-site against Indian developers) have instituted a denial-of-service attack against CIA web servers. Teams are currently raiding several OSDN locations in order to preserve freedom.
-- John Ashcroft, here to help you
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
for Troll Tuesday I proclaim that michael should suck it HARD!
They need to do more research. Look at this photo from the archives. It shows that Segways were used long before now. Conspiracy is key.
___ Shout Central - Crushes your nuts!
I don't recall seeing the CIA anywhere in Stephen King's "IT". However, it would not surprise me if they now employed Pennywise the Clown in their espionage efforts.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
It's nice to know the CIA has lots of people who just sit at desks and do boring stuff and spend their time trying to find pesky documents. I was afraid they *all* spent their time ferrying cocaine around southeast asia and creating military dictatorships.
Sounds like they need to buy some nice commodity content-management and data mining software and a timesheet system. It's so cosy!
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
Clearly, we need more information about the people in the CIA, and what their relative abilities are, not whining about the IT abilities or lack thereof.. I mean, where's the mention of John Clark?
Anyone else think at first that this was going to be about the CIA buying some segways?
Mr. Clancy, there's no need to post as an Anonymous Coward here.
who needs Information Technology at the Culinary Institute of America?
and it ain't Jennifer Garner :)
Jayson Blair is CIA's newest hire. He comes from liberal, yet shrewd and intelligent NY Times where he was a "hands-on" reporter("All the News That's Fit to Print")
George Tenet personally welcomed Jayson and introduced him as ~The man who will cut CIA's travel budget in half and will bring honesty, diversity and precision to our organization~
George also mentioned that he came across Jayson's resume on dice.com; (leading online provider of online recruiting services for technology professionals) Blair's resume was simply stellar~ said Tenet, ~With his experience and skills he should be twice as old!~
p.s.
troll alert!
Didn't you know that the CIA provides a complete fake identity to all its agents? Passports, birth certificates, work history, even a slashdot user name?
"dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope"
Ok, that makes much more sense, I was imagining agents trying to be sneaky while wheeling around on Segways.
The CIA isn't as dumb as Bush is pretending to be?
Or your understanding of grammar isn't as bad as you are pretending it to be?