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- teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57Page 1: http://www.shortText.com/w9ixo
Page 2: http://www.shortText.com/e0yln
Thanks to BugMeNot - peace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Here's the username and password
http://bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.chicagotribune.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Wow, next thing you know, the whitehouse administration itself will be blowing CIA agents' co....oh... RIGHT....
- orangeRam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18The Espionage Act of 1982 makes it illegal for ANYONE to disclose the identify of a covert operative. Reporter, secretary, President, Vice President...it doesn't matter. The reason why it is more than likely that the President or Vice President would get away with it (i.e. not get impeached) is because they would claim executive privilege in doing so
- investr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Interesting this came up. Let me give you a little tidbit of how dangerous this is...
Lexis-Nexis in their infinite wisdom decided to allow *free* access to anyone to search for missing/lost relatives after 9/11. The idea is great. However, that link they provided included the password encoded in the URL. I saw that and thought, "there is no way they made it this easy!" So of course, I grabbed it, decoded it (ROT-13) and bingo, I had a MASTER password. I could access anything that Lexis had to offer. I looked up myself and saw my credit report, tickets, loans, debts, (owed $50 to state for tax...) everything. I even looked up some friends and they were completely baffled.
Moral of the story. We are at the MERCY of whatever idiot is working for these companies and how they handle our information. Dangerous is an understatement. - spunkz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Article states that analyst aren't undercover and therefore can disclose their employment with the CIA - which is exactly what you probably encountered.
- appleswitch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Using a link you found on digg to help digg? thats got to be bonus points or something
- tekmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12You have to realize that the reason certain diggs go to the front page and other don't, is not merely because of keywords. It has to do with the time of day a story is added, the type of stories that have also been submitted around the same time (users are less likely to digg a bunch of similar articles at one time), and the people on the submitter's friends list (i.e. if kevin rose watches them, a lot of people are going to see what kevin's friends have dugg by looking at his profile ;-) ).
Not that I'm defending this person submitting the exact same article with the exact same URL.... ;P - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Obviously, "Agent" is the key word in the title, which reminds ppl of another headline news ...
http://digg.com/security/Essential_tools_to_fight_eavesdropping - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13The executive branch might be able to blow peoples' covers, but when it is done as political retribution, it becomes an act of treason.
- RocketMike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8double@mailinator.com
123456 - erikpemberton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Does anyone want to start a thread and just post our SSNs? Might as well save people the trouble and get it over with.
- Deuterium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8There is a HUGE difference between what a Case Officer or someone at in SAD does and what the analyst does. I have no idea what a "CIA Agent" is. That's just pure Hollywood terminology. The CIA has, supply specialists, maintenance specialists, IT specialists, radio specialists, hell they even have a Starbucks and a Burger King in the cafeteria with your typical joes that work there. It's the only cafeteria you need a Top Secret clearance to get a cappuccino and Whopper with cheese. This is why the whole Plame thing was such a joke.
- GaymerGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Employer: Central Intelligence Agency - hmmm maybe we shouldn't list that as thier employer.
- Pottersquash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Either that, or our CIA is so devious they have complied a fraudlent database and allowed it o be easily found meanwhile the true Agent list remains in Langley guarded a secruity system with 3 elements......
- investr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This was in 2001 when all the sh!t hit the fan with 9/11 in New York. I am sure their intentions were righteous, but the method was elementary at best. If I remember correctly, even CNN was directing users to the website to lookup relatives/friends, etc. I just wonder how many other folks read between the lines and noticed what I did. If I was malicious with the information, I could have wreaked havoc for someone. I think the password I found was good for about 3 weeks. It allowed me access to various websites (lexis.com, nexis.com, lexisnexis.com) and all levels of information those sites provide. Now that I think about it, I probably could have sued them.
- zer0blivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5My favorite part of the article:
A senior U.S. official, reacting to the computer searches that produced the names and addresses, said, "I don't know whether Al Qaeda could do this, but the Chinese could." - Tycho7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5True, but it still shows how much information the internet contains, and how much of it is searchable.
- CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5jesus. this is horrible :( the govt needs to catch up with the internet security issue.
- Codebender, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Not everyone who works for the CIA is an "agent" and not every agent is publicly revealed as such. The Plame case was a big deal specifically because she was a "covert agent" who's affiliation with the CIA was supposed to remain a secret.
- xxsiriusxburnxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I didnt read the story but this is just funny because my friend mikieears worked for a company skip-tracing, and he used Lexis-Nexus, we used it to find people from the past whether it was old friends or people who ripped me off on ebay, quite a nice database.
- Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I went to one of those "free dinners" in exchange for listening to the time-share sales pitch in DC once and hanging on the wall was a list of all the people who had signed up for it, their names, photos of them enjoying themselves at the time-share, and their place of employment. Quite a few listed "CIA" as their employer. At about the same time I was also looking for a house in the NoVa area and again, when the real estate broker would show me around, many of the houses had CIA award certificates hanging on the wall somewhere.
- nihilator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"I have no idea what a "CIA Agent" is. That's just pure Hollywood terminology."
Not true. A CIA "agent" is the foreign national that is recruited by the CIA officer to give information and/or commit treason against the foreign country. - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Thanks. Nice use of shorttext.com.
- Nemesiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You know I must say its quite a presidential administration when 'Scooter' is in the house. =)
- a1lostnomad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think he was hinting that we don't care about Al Qaeda because they are just a bunch of crazy people in caves, Army Intelligence is good enough for them (so not many CIA there). On the other hand, there is China. China is industrialized and is one of the biggest military powers in the world so several CIA agents are there keeping a close watch.
- OsakaWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Karl Rove's note to self: Implant articles that make CIA outing seem like a more common event. Will reduce impact on potus when sh*t hits fan.
- mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Excuse me but I fail to see the humour in this.
Somehow the realization that the non-official cover of a specialist in non-conventional weapons was blown due to political retribution does not strike my funny bone whatsoever.
Our soldiers have been stuck in the middle of the gates of hell for almost three years because the looming threat of WMD was ever so present back in 2003. Remember hearing "we don't want the smoking gun to come in the shape of a mushroom cloud."
Wouldn't it make sense that if we really were afraid of WMD we would care a bit more the people whose job it was to monitor the spread of said threats? You know people like Valerie Plame.
Being a cynic I loathe to be one criticizing it. But in this instance if there is any joke to told, it is a cruel one at the expense of this nation. - antispammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Evidence destroyed
- Sleestack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You know that Scooter Libby's attorneys will be referencing this story in his defense.
- Codebender, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well, W calls Karl Rove "Turdblossom" and Vladimir Putin "Pooty-Poot". "Scooter" actually seems pretty tame.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interowned.
Yeah, I know I'm lame. - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Well that sucks, or maybe scooter just made up this story to cover himself up...?
Hey, it could happen. - avonej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, that made no sense to me whatsoever. It seems to me that this information is entirely public to anyone with an Internet connection and determination, but having some cash on hand would surely help speed things up. Now does he believe Al Qaeda has neither an Internet connection nor money to spend on something like this? Or is it just "the Chinese" who could do it?
If anyone can maybe offer an explanation as to why he said that, I'd be thankful, because in context it sounds to me like he doesn't know what he's talking about. - agreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1absolutely shocking and fascinating read. absolutely shocking. even the stuff the government is supposed to be good at it sucks at. makes you wonder how anything gets done.
- fa_pa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2the comrades are a bigger threat now/again
- mikeod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Lexis-Nexis was nice enough to expose my information to the public and/or hackers. In return all they had to do was purchase a year of credit watch for me from Equifax. Companies just dont seem to care about your personal data. I have nothing to do with 9/11 or Katrina.
- afbase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow that has to be the best lexis nexis hack i've heard ever
*applaud*
i'm jealous because they have more information there than the internet itself! - learns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1news is rubbish.
- learns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0news is rubbish. google,msn search and yahoo together index only 16% percent of the information on the web.
- electrolytextc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1RTFA! There was no mention of LexisNexis in the Chicago Tribune article.
- Ryetronics, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7Most ignorant comment in this thread. Congrats.
- champyonfiyah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Was this URL posted to the public or was it something you recieved in an email?
- jabelar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Overt leads to covert:
Yeah, but with the power of searching you can connect overt employees with covert ones. That's what people fail to fully grasp -- the ability to aggregate apparently minor pieces of personal information into a serious violation of privacy. - Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2So every intelligence agency in the world has all the names and presumably addresses as of now
- lon3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2i find your nickname pretty ugly
- detrate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1this article blows my... mind... yes.. that's it, MIND.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2They can't do anything without the other half of the NOC list.
- koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1you don't have to. just read.
- Codebender, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yeah... it's all DARPA's fault.
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