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Iranians Compromised a Highly Sensitive CIA Covert Communications System in 2011 by Using Google Search: Report (yahoo.com)

Posted by msmash on from the catastrophic-failure dept.

In 2011, Iran was able to use Google's search functionality to hack into a secret CIA communication network that was being used to contact agents and informants around the world -- a breach that appears to have triggered the exposure and execution of Agency sources in China and Iran, Yahoo News reported Friday.

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  1. Re:Ooops by radja · · Score: 0, Troll

    In this case, google wasn't evil. Google was used to expose evil.

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    No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
    --Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
  2. Re: Blame America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Remove your sanctions, and military bases and missiles that surround Iran from every direction and I'll gladly go back.

    You make it sound like Iran is the imperial oppressor not the US. Do I need to put this in StarWars terms so that uneducated Americans can also understand it?