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Malcolm Gladwell: Pandora’s Briefcase
Operation Mincemeat was a dazzling feat of wartime espionage. But does it argue for or against spying?
2010-05-12 to bestof, espionage, game theory, intelligence, spying, story by soobrosa
James Bamford: Who's in Big Brother's Database?
Roughly equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond Yottabytes haven't yet been named.
2009-12-11 to bestof, books, cia, data, nsa, security, spying, surveillance by soobrosa
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook
Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site
2008-01-25 to bestof, society, spying, technology by bagoly
The spying game: The latest gadgets for spooks
From night vision to tiny cameras, many everyday gadgets were originally developed for spies. Guy Adams plays with the latest spookware to see what's heading our way
2007-02-14 to spying, technology by bagoly
E. Howard Hunt, Agent Who Organized Botched Watergate Break-In, Dies at 88
E. Howard Hunt, a cold warrior for the Central Intelligence Agency who left the spy service in disillusionment, joined the Nixon White House as a secret agent and bungled the break-in at the Watergate that brought the president down in disgrace, died Tues
2007-01-26 to history, obituary, spying by bagoly
20 Secrets of an Infamous Dead Spy
During his time on this planet, Howard Hunt was everywhere — in both the Pacific and Atlantic theatres in World War II, and in the CIA during its earliest experiments with regime toppling. But he achieved fame for his spectacular failures — including a ro
2007-01-26 to 10 zen monkeys, history, obituary, spying by bagoly
I spy with my little cellphone
What were once the tracking tools of spies and private investigators are now being offered to mainstream America, specifically parents who want to keep constant track of their kids in real time. Already, millions of families have discovered the meddlesome
2006-08-21 to interesting, spying by bagoly
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.
2006-06-13 to society, spying by bagoly
Benjamin Wallace-Wells: Private Jihad
How Rita Katz got into the spying business.
2006-05-25 to freakonomics, intelligence, power.play, spying by soobrosa

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