>>5617565 (LB)
The perils of early baking!!
>>5617565 (Q LB)
>Define 'Surveillance state'.
>A surveillance state is a country where the government engages in pervasive surveillance of large numbers of its citizens and visitors.
I think a lot of Americans would not normally consider themselves to be living in a "surveillance state" and would only think of that happening somewhere else. Would probably recoil if you said they were living in one.
Fifteen months into a wide-ranging investigation by the agency’s counterintelligence arm, known as Q Group…
Talk about Russia in the NYT article.
>Russia is the prime suspect in a parallel hemorrhage of hacking tools and secret documents from the C.I.A.’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, posted week after week since March to the WikiLeaks website under the names Vault7 and Vault8. That breach, too, is unsolved. Together, the flood of digital secrets from agencies that invest huge resources in preventing such breaches is raising profound questions.
>Have hackers and leakers made secrecy obsolete? Has Russian intelligence simply outplayed the United States, penetrating the most closely guarded corners of its government? Can a work force of thousands of young, tech-savvy spies ever be immune to leaks?