Dozens of American spies were killed in Iran and China after a flawed communications service that allowed foreign foes to see what the agents were up to using Google, official sources have claimed.
Between 2009 and 2013 the US Central Intelligence Agency suffered a “catastrophic” secret communications failure in a website used by officers and their field agents around the world to speak to each other, according to a report in Yahoo News, which heard from 11 former intelligence and government officials about the previously unreported disaster.
“We’re still dealing with the fallout,” said one former national security official. “Dozens of people around the world were killed because of this.”
The internet-based communications platform was first used in the Middle East to communicate with soldiers in war zones and had not been intended for widespread use but due to its ease of use and efficacy, it was adopted by agents despite its lack of sophistication, the sources claimed.
Cracks only began to show when Iran, angered that the government under Barack Obama had discovered a secret Iranian nuclear weapon factory, went out with a fine tooth comb to find moles.
It discovered the existence of one of the websites used by US agents using Google. US officials believe that Iranian spies were able to use Google as a search tool to find secret CIA websites, unbeknown to those using them.
pooplingpo on November 3rd, 2018 at 17:46 UTC »
It mentions this was discussed in the house and senate intelligence committee, and how an intellegice official blames our system for it.
Why wouldnt they order a fix to a clear security flaw exposed a decade ago? Who on there didn't want this fixed?
tootie on November 3rd, 2018 at 17:15 UTC »
The article is vague in it's assertion that "spies" were killed. I'd wager they really mean CIA assets, not agents. Killing American agents would cause a major shitstorm. Killing local informants is more plausible.
ThisMuhShitpostAcct on November 3rd, 2018 at 16:08 UTC »
It's Snapchat isn't it.