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Wikis: The Future For Espionage?
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko -- who died by suspicious poisoning in London last week -- might still be alive if he were an anonymous poster using a Wiki instead.
Imagine James Bond not with a gun but a blog.
Or Spy vs. Spy...hmmm, maybe that's the purpose of Gawker.com or TMZ.com.
Apparently the U.S. Intelligence community believes wikis are the key to the future of espionage. Recently, the government agency said it's creating its own secretive version of Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia anyone can edit (with certain reservations). That kind of openness will be key to sharing sensitive information, U.S. Intelligence czar John Negroponte said.
Called Intellipedia, the new service will allow intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web, which is basically the World Wide Web for U.S. Intelligence. The "top secret" Intellipedia is available to the 16 agencies in the U.S. Intelligence community, enabling the disparate agencies, which once existed in silos, to actually share information with one another.
The service has been around since April 17 and has already grown to 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users. It's currently being used to develop a report on Nigeria, which is the home of nearly one-fifth of the crude oil the U.S. imports from overseas. Negroponte and others say Intellipedia may one day be the tool intelligence officials use to produce the president's daily intelligence briefing. Security concerns are outweighed by the instant availability of classified information.
Of course, we know how well the government responds to those DIBs...
...waitaminute, if this story has been reported by Reuters, just how "top secret" is it?
What is this...ACME reports in the hands of Wile E. Coyote?
Will they post Britney sightings?
posted by Unknown @ Monday, November 27, 2006,
