Notes PRoLoGuE Snowden’s Trail: Hong Kong, 2014 3, “No Such Agency”: The best description of the birth of the NSA can be found in Bamford, Puzzle Palace, 1-4. 4 the NSA learned: General Keith Alexander, interview with author. 4 twelve-minute video: This video can be seen at h...
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Computer scientist Stuart Russell, along with Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Max Tegmark, and numerous others, has insisted that attention be paid to the potential dangers in creating an intelligence on the superhuman (or even the human) level—an AGI, or artificial general intellige...
124 In view of such past successes of the Russian intelligence services, it cannot be precluded that there was another person in the NSA working with Snowden who used an enthusiastic as cover to prevent any light from falling on his own surreptitious spying. While it may seem ex...
292 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS November, they made online bookings for quarters in Paris for the nine attackers, Even though Abaaoud was well-known to Western intelligence services, none of the communications surrounding the preparations for the attack came to the attention...
It’s an absurdly vast house, among the largest in Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the household staff ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate foods and beverages. In sweatshirt, draw-string pants, palm beach...
116 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Some secret methods that Snowden made public compromised the NSA’s state-of-the-art technology of which adversaries had been unaware. For example, the NSA had devised an ingenious tech- nology in 2008 for tapping into computers abroad that had...
Chapter Five Almost no one in Israel knew what we had done. But the next morning, a package arrived at the Sayeret Matkal base from one of the few people who did. We opened it in Avraham’s office. It was a nearly full carton of champagne: real, French champagne, since it would b...
transition might have been almost inevitable given the ‘right’ environment. We just don’t know -- nor do we know if the DNA/RNA chemistry of terrestrial life is the only possibility, or just one chemical basis among many options that could be realized elsewhere LIFE Moreover, e...
282 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS on-camera star of a twenty-hour-long reality show, edited first into a video and then a full-length documentary, transformed him in the public’s mind into a hero. It would be a mistake to assume that the central role he gave himself was simply...
It’s an absurdly vast house, among the largest in Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the household staff ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate foods and beverages. In sweatshirt, draw-string pants, palm beach...
At the heart of Mr. Snowden’s narrative was his claim that while he may have incidentally “touched” other data in his search of NSA files, he took only documents that exposed the malfeasance of the NSA and gave all of them to journalists. Yet even as Mr. Snowden’s narrative was...
170 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Russians Are Coming "The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century."—Vladimir Putin In the first invasion of a European country since the end of the Cold War, Russian military forces moved into the Crimea...
168 Despite all the potential flaws in it, the outsourcing system, ii seemed to work until 2013. It even featured a revolving door through which Booz Allen, for example, hired retiring executives from the intelligence services, such as ex-NSA director Michael McConnell, R. James...
CHAPTER 8 Raider of the Inner Sanctum They think there’s a smoking gun in there that would be the death of them all politically. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 HE NIGHTMARE OF THE NSA is a penetration. As the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA found out in the 1990s, no intelligence se...
seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity...” “Well,” says Pierce in seeming dramatic understatement, “you are going to have some low quality characters playing early in the space...” That evening, i...