[MLUG] Open-source spying

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Interesting article .. last month's news but still worth reading:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03intelligence.html?ex=1322802000&en=46027e63d79046ce&ei=5090

I ran across it in a /. article:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/14/2125202

So the basic spy problem seems to be that they need massive networking and 
information sharing within and between cooperating agencies, but they also 
have to keep things top secret.  Having focused on secretiveness, they 
aren't so good at sharing.  That has to change.  But you have to realize 
that they also don't like sharing information because every spy wants to 
be the hero -- they don't want to give up their ideas to someone else who 
might steal the glory.  So the CIA and FBI should be cooperative but they 
really don't want to cooperate!  This may be the root of the problem.

Mike

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