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[2008] Believe Me, It's Torture | Politics | Vanity Fair
H ere is the most chilling way I can find of stating the matter. Until recently, “waterboarding” was something that Americans did to other Americans. It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the Special Forces who underwent the advanced form of training known as sere (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape).[2010] Top secret America, by The Washington Post
[2010] CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead | Danger Room | Wired.com
For three years, Matthew Burton has been trying to get a simple, useful software tool into the hands of analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency. For three years, haggling over the code’s intellectual property rights has kept the software from going anywhere near Langley.
[2010] NSA assists Sun, Red Hat, and Apple harden their OS at IntelFusi
The NSA is sooo generous to help these ones to "fix" problems of security oin their programs... by Dec 13
Cela commence à prendre une tournure très hollywoodienne. Alors que le piratage d'une vingtaine de sociétés occidentales - dont Google - est devenu un nouveau sujet de brouille entre les États-Unis et la Chine, le Washington Post rapporte que la firme de Mountain View pourrait demander l'aide de la National Security Agency (NSA), la fameuse agence gouvernementale américaine spécialisée dans le renseignement électromagnétique. Selon le quotidien américain, qui s'appuie sur des sources anonymes, Google souhaiterait que l'agence américaine passe en revue la sécurité actuellement mise en place par l'entreprise californienne, afin de déceler et de corriger d'éventuelles faiblesses.
Piratage : la NSA pourrait venir en aide à Google... mais à quel
[2010] CIA moonlights in corporate world - Eamon Javers - POLITICO.com
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.The U.S. intelligence community wants a sharp competitive edge on the world’s best and brightest ideas.
