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CIA Shows Off (Formerly) Super-Secret Spy Goodies

Posted by timothy on from the gov't-spy-porn->-gov't-cheese dept.

Velcroman1 writes "Last week, [the CIA] launched a revamped website with links to YouTube and Flickr containing Agency historical videos and picture galleries. 'The idea behind these improvements is to make more information about the agency available to more people, more easily,' Director Panetta said in a statement. 'The CIA wants the American people and the world to understand its mission and its vital role in keeping our country safe.' In terms of pure coolness the Flickr stream takes the cake — including never-before-seen gallery of special agent supergadgets."

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  1. Yes, trust us. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    After all, we're kinder, gentler spies. /sarcasm

    1. Re:Yes, trust us. by Vitriol+Angst · · Score: 3, Insightful

      How about simply saying; the maximum "earnings" someone can get, is 1,000 times minimum wage?

      So, those that get the most, have no upper limit, as long as they advocate for what the LEAST get.

      $20 an hour vs. $20,000 an hour does NOT seem like a burden on innovation to me.

      How many steaks and yachts does some asshole need? If you are making so much that you have to hire an army to defend it -- you could NOT have gotten it merely by making the world a better place -- likely, you've pillaged a few companies, you've destroyed a few lives. I always hear people lauding the greatness of the uber wealthy, but the examples of people who've gotten there, have to gloss over a lot of back-door deals and buying of politicians in most cases. I'd argue, that you CANNOT get to be the biggest bank, or military contractor, or oil company, WITHOUT doing a hell of a lot of evil.

      But, before anything like that can work -- there HAS TO BE, more transparency required of people with power. People with power and wealth have to be thought of as privileged, only BECAUSE they are of benefit to society as a whole -- and so they must give up privacy. Having video cameras in every bathroom, and firing teachers, and forcing people into serfdom with 40% fees on Credit Card debt -- well, that's only necessary to KEEP the status quo and protect the very powerful FROM RESPONSIBILITY.

      The religion of "personal responsibility", means that PEOPLE have no rights, and any corporate conglomerate has no responsibly. Obviously, our goals in such a world is to become a holding company of one, and to screw everyone else.

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  2. The point of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The point of this isn't to be more open. The point is to make people think about what the CIA can do with today's technology if they could do that with the technology of yesteryear. Making the enemy overestimate your power is an important principle in deterrence.

    1. Re:The point of this by omni123 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The point of this isn't to be more open. The point is to make people think about what the CIA can do with today's technology if they could do that with the technology of yesteryear. Making the enemy overestimate your power is an important principle in deterrence.

      Oh shi. I'm sure Mossad saw the revamped CIA website and were like "OH DAMN, IMAGINE WHAT THEY CAN DO NOW. THEIR WEBSITE IS TOTALLY AWESOME. RUN. HIDE YOUR CHILDREN.".

      Because foreign intelligence services don't have more reliable ways of determining technology in the field at present time then some guestimation based on 50 year old photos in a flickr album.

  3. Re:Congratulations by Kokuyo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What makes you believe that the info the CIA shares in meetings neither you nor I are invited to is the very same you and I get to see from them?