Speaking to the CIA’s Creative Writing Group

This is a fascinating story.

Last spring, a friend of a friend visited my office and invited me to Langley to speak to Invisible Ink, the CIA’s creative writing group.

I asked Vivian (not her real name) what she wanted me to talk about.

She said that the topic of the talk was entirely up to me.

I asked what level the writers in the group were.

She said the group had writers of all levels.

I asked what the speaking fee was.

She said that as far as she knew, there was no speaking fee.

What I want to know is, why haven’t I been invited? There are nonfiction writers in that group…

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Chinese, Russian interference attempts on 2022 midterms didn’t impact voting, intelligence agencies say

U.S. intelligence agencies expect election interference to shift from targeting of voting systems to influencing social media.

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US intel: Chinese influence operations are growing more aggressive, more similar to Russia’s

China is stepping up efforts to influence U.S. public opinion, which increasingly resemble Russian operations. 

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Hackaday Links: October 9, 2022

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Don’t you just hate it when you walk out of the bathroom with toilet paper stuck to your shoe? That’s a little bit like what happened when the Mars helicopter …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 9, 2022

Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites

Back in 2018, we learned that covert system of websites that the CIA used for communications was compromised by—at least—China and Iran, and that the blunder caused a bunch of arrests, imprisonments, and executions. We’re now learning that the CIA is still “using an irresponsibly secured system for asset communication.”

Citizen Lab did the research:

Using only a single website, as well as publicly available material such as historical internet scanning results and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we identified a network of 885 websites and have high confidence that the United States (US) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used these sites for covert communication…

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CIA Whistleblower Found Guilty of Leaking Vault 7 Documents to WikiLeaks

By Deeba Ahmed
The Vault 7 leak included trojans, viruses, malware, zero-day exploits, malware remote control systems, and related documents dating…
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CIA Wants Russians to Share Secret Info with the Agency via its Darknet Site

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CIA’s darknet website will be accessible to Russians through the Tor internet browser. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)…
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Biden administration is studying whether to strip DOD of Trump-era cyber authorities

The Biden administration is considering revising the Trump-era policy which gave broad cyber authorities to the Department of Defense and Cyber Command.

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