Post by Wave Trekker on Jul 14, 2010 23:08:24 GMT -5
I'd link to it, but Yahoo stories disappear pretty quickly...here's a little bit of it though...
Marc Sageman, a former CIA operations officer and now special adviser to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, described the arrests in the United States as insignificant and said other countries posed a greater threat with more sophisticated spying methods or plots of terrorist attacks on civilians.
"What has changed is the political landscape and the players," he says. "The Chinese, for instance are spying on us more than they ever did."
Figures, when they've got odd numbers stations such as this one...or maybe it isn't (read description)...
Vienna, this ancient city of international intrigue, still is considered Spy Central even though its stately, spruced-up avenues have no resemblance to the dank mazes haunted by the Soviet and Western agents of Cold War days.
Spies of all nationalities continue to ply their trade here — thousands of them, ensconced in the myriad embassies to Austria, the local U.N. headquarters and missions to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
IAEA officials have "safe rooms" where nuclear secrets are discussed, and these are swept regularly for bugs. But personnel privately acknowledge that even the most confidential conversations are not safe from cyber-spying.
At the same time the IAEA is being spied on, the U.N. nuclear watchdog reaps the benefits of reconnaissance windfalls thousands of miles away.
Suspicions about Iran were strengthened in 2005, after U.S. intelligence agencies shared material from a laptop computer that they say was smuggled out of the Islamic Republic.
Tehran denies interest in nuclear weapons. But the laptop information suggested that Tehran had been working on details of nuclear weapons, including missile trajectories and ideal altitudes for exploding warheads and included videos of what intelligence officials believe were secret nuclear laboratories in Iran.
Pretty insane stuff.
Marc Sageman, a former CIA operations officer and now special adviser to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, described the arrests in the United States as insignificant and said other countries posed a greater threat with more sophisticated spying methods or plots of terrorist attacks on civilians.
"What has changed is the political landscape and the players," he says. "The Chinese, for instance are spying on us more than they ever did."
Figures, when they've got odd numbers stations such as this one...or maybe it isn't (read description)...
Vienna, this ancient city of international intrigue, still is considered Spy Central even though its stately, spruced-up avenues have no resemblance to the dank mazes haunted by the Soviet and Western agents of Cold War days.
Spies of all nationalities continue to ply their trade here — thousands of them, ensconced in the myriad embassies to Austria, the local U.N. headquarters and missions to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
IAEA officials have "safe rooms" where nuclear secrets are discussed, and these are swept regularly for bugs. But personnel privately acknowledge that even the most confidential conversations are not safe from cyber-spying.
At the same time the IAEA is being spied on, the U.N. nuclear watchdog reaps the benefits of reconnaissance windfalls thousands of miles away.
Suspicions about Iran were strengthened in 2005, after U.S. intelligence agencies shared material from a laptop computer that they say was smuggled out of the Islamic Republic.
Tehran denies interest in nuclear weapons. But the laptop information suggested that Tehran had been working on details of nuclear weapons, including missile trajectories and ideal altitudes for exploding warheads and included videos of what intelligence officials believe were secret nuclear laboratories in Iran.
Pretty insane stuff.
