Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 10/1/22
Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 10/1/22
The CIA burned Iranian informants, Lawrence Abrams tried to steer ransomware gangs away from hospitals, The pedestrian nature of surveillance, IPVM blows China's surveillance cover, more
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America’s Throwaway Spies: How the CIA failed Iranian informants in its secret war with Tehran
Joel Schectman and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin at Reuters have this in-depth and heartbreaking investigation into how a faulty covert CIA communications system burned Iranian informants, a failure that when combined with aggressive efforts by the CIA to gather Iranian intelligence, exposed them to punishment and imprisonment.
Such aggressive steps by the CIA sometimes put average Iranians in danger with little prospect of gaining critical intelligence. When these men were caught, the agency provided no assistance to the i…
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