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I'm sitting in a Starbucks in Millbrae, California reading the good old San Francisco Chronicle (in paper form) and surfing the web at a wireless hotspot.
The Chronicle has an interesting story that's a tad ironic, given the cyber hacking revelations that emerged yesterday when the SIS said the Government had been subject to electronic infiltration allegedly by other Governments.
As the Chronicle reports: "As spy gear goes, a social-networking website doesn't quite have the same cachet as some of James Bond's high tech gadgets."
"But the US intelligence community is taking a page from popular online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace to help encourage operatives to share information. In December, agency leaders are starting a social-networking site just for spooks".
The "A-Space" will eventually include blogs, databases and libraries of reports.
Wow, I wonder if the spooks will be able to customize their A-Space pages to play the theme music from the Bourne Supremacy when they log in.
Apparently, access to this social network will be "stored behind a thicket of classified safeguards" but built using commercially available software. Sounds like a security breach waiting to happen, but given the communications breakdown between security bodies in the US in the run up to the 9/11 attacks which happened six years ago today, maybe social networking websites are a good way of getting everyone in the surveillance community on the same page.
It has to be one of the geekiest games around, but I've seen the result of a segway collision and it's as messy as any collapsed rugby scrum, worse even...
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Blog: Spies take to social networking
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