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…re. For example, the NSA had devised an ingenious tech- nology in 2008 for tapping into computers abroad that had been “air-gapped,” or intentionally isolated from any network to protect highly sensitive information, such as missile telemetry, nuclear bomb development, and cyber-...

234 12 The Engineering and Development of Ethics The ideal in this regard would be a system like Cyc [LG90] with a fully explicit logic-based knowledge representation based on a standard ontology — in this case, every Cyc instance would have a relatively easy time understanding...

…on’t know exactly how close this emulation needs to be, which means that our AGI systems and platforms need to support fairly flexible experimentation with virtual-world and/or robotic infrastructures. 6. To work toward adult human-level, roughly human-like general intelligence,...

8 1 Introduction 1.6.6 Use heuristic computer science methods The computer science field contains a number of abstract formalisms, algorithms and structures that have relevance beyond specific narrow AI applications, yet aren’t necessarily understood as thoroughly as would be r...

The Rise of the NSA | 203 communications intelligence allowed the CIA (and other U.S. intelli- gence services) to test and verify the reports of their human sources in foreign countries. Moreover, because of the immense amount of foreign data that the NSA vacuumed in through its...

212 documents were not their illegality. Nor did the fact they were lawful actions stop him from taking highly-sensitive GCHQ documents referring to them. In his five weeks at this Booz Allen job, he also used this same newly-acquired “Priv Ac” at the NSA to steal files from the...

158 By the first decade of the 21* century, the NSA’s surreptitious efforts to render the Internet transparent to US intelligence had earned it a new set of enemies. They were the previously- mentioned hacktavists who were attempting to shield the activities of Internet users fr...

107 phone for fear of being tracked by an intelligence service. When she travelled, she bought “burner” phones locally and disposed of them before any calls could be traced back to her. A precaution she took that June was not to meet Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the...

…ew technological methods could be devised. New vulnerabilities also could be targeted in enemy territories. Although repairing the damage might take many “decades.” according to Michael McConnell, the Vice Chairman of Booz Allen, the new director had to get on with that task. McC...

156 remotely intercepting even the faintest traces of electromagnetic signals, hacking into computers, and eavesdropping on distant conversations, but using special units, called “tailored access operations,” to plant listening devices in embassies and diplomatic pouches. It als...

…gencies and security regime, the ability of Putin to use covert means to achieve his other global ambitions would be impaired. In the cold peace that replaced the Cold War, Russia had little hope of realizing these ambitions unless it could weaken the NSA’‘s iron-tight grip on gl...

The Russians Are Coming | 227 history dating back to the era of the czars, Russian intelligence had perfected the technique of false flag recruitment, through which it assumes an identity to fit the ideological bent of a potential recruit. Russian intelligence was well experien...

THE UNITY OF INTELLIGENCE Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek is Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, and the author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design. I. A Simple Answer to Contentious Questions: e Can an artif...

228 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Helsinki were using the Trust to deliver arms and supplies to their partisans inside Russia. The Trust also furnished spies’ and exiled leaders’ fake passports, which allowed them to sneak back into Russia to particip...

…rooted in a confident, costly misconception which went unchallenged: that Egypt would never risk another war without an air force capable of breaching our defences and striking towns and cities deep inside Israel. No one pressed the alternative scenario: that Sadat might strike w...