>The discovery of these websites by Iranian and Chinese counterintelligence led to the imprisonment and execution of several assets in those countries
>McClathy DC reported on "Intelligence, defense whistleblowers remain mired in broken system" that CIA contractor John A. Reidy had started raising concerns about the security of a communication systems used by the CIA and other sources mention that he started this in 2008 The focus of the article is how he was then ignored and silenced for raising these concerns, which later turned out to be correct and leading to an intelligence catastrophe that started in 2010
It's a rare insight into how espionage works but it was a major failiure.
>Another very interesting mention is the platform had been over extended beyond its original domain application, which is in part why things went so catastrophically bad:
Former U.S. officials said the internet-based platform, which was first used in war zones in the Middle East, was not built to withstand the sophisticated counterintelligence efforts of a state actor like China or Iran. “It was never meant to be used long term for people to talk to sources,” said one former official. “The issue was that it was working well for too long, with too many people. But it was an elementary system.”
It seems that the system was used beyond the original purpose it was designed for. It wasn't a dumb idea, it was just the way in which it was used which was incompetent.
>McClathy DC reported on "Intelligence, defense whistleblowers remain mired in broken system" that CIA contractor John A. Reidy had started raising concerns about the security of a communication systems used by the CIA and other sources mention that he started this in 2008 The focus of the article is how he was then ignored and silenced for raising these concerns, which later turned out to be correct and leading to an intelligence catastrophe that started in 2010
It's a rare insight into how espionage works but it was a major failiure.
>Another very interesting mention is the platform had been over extended beyond its original domain application, which is in part why things went so catastrophically bad:
It seems that the system was used beyond the original purpose it was designed for. It wasn't a dumb idea, it was just the way in which it was used which was incompetent.