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CIA launches its own darkweb site after creating an instagram
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2019-05-09 at 12:43 AM UTC
CIA launches its own site on the dark web in hopes of receiving anonymous tips, weeks after making its Instagram debut
The CIA will turn to the dark web to help glean anonymous tips and info
It's new site will run on the Tor network, known for its criminal activity
Late last month, the CIA also started its first-ever Instagram page
NSA whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, says the agency is looking for recruits
While most law enforcement agencies are focused on mitigating the impact of the dark web, the CIA will attempt to use the anonymous network in a novel attempt to solicit tips and information.
According to a press release, the CIA's new site will exist on the Tor network – an open source software that helps anonymize users communications by relaying their information through thousands of relay points.
'Our global mission demands that individuals can access us securely from anywhere. Creating an onion site is just one of many ways we're going where people are,' said Brittany Bramell, CIA's Director of Public Affairs.
The the Tor network – which stands for 'the onion relay' – makes an ideal vehicle for anonymous communications since the messages sent through the network make it extremely difficult to ascertain the start and the end point of information exchanged through the system.
In addition to tips, the CIA says it is also offering other options through its anonymous website that include 'applying for a job' and checking The World Factbook – an online encyclopedia of sorts that contains information on governments, economies and people around the world.
Tor may be more well-known for the illicit activities it has enabled through the dark web, but its application toward government intelligence and spying is equally as common.
As reported by PandoDaily, Tor's creation was not only funded by the U.S. government and created by people who worked for, among other's, the NSA, but has been used by be U.S. intelligence to mask their identities in the field.
As noted in the report, Tor was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind so that members could communicate privately.
Beyond anonymity of would-be information, usage of the dark web may also be part of a broader shift by the agency to make itself appealing to younger generations.
The CIA's announcement follows up a recent decision by America's top spy agency to start up an Instagram account which posts artistic renderings made by agents in the CIA and staged pictures with puns like 'I spy with my little eye…'
In a interview with NSA whistle-blower and privacy advocate Edward Snowden, a Motherboard report notes that using tools like social media and other forms of publicity may be an effort to reclaim the agency's image.
'They get Twitter accounts. Instagram accounts (with) puppies and everything like that, because they want to be friendly. They want to be on your side,' said Snowden referencing his former employer.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7007891/CIA-launches-site-dark-web-hopes-receiving-anonymous-tips.html
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2019-05-09 at 3:29 PM UTCIf you can't beat em join em eh?
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2019-05-09 at 4:48 PM UTCI found their semi secret email once by accident. This CIA woman replied to me.... I always figured they were too paranoid. Maybe not. I'd help them if I could. I'd love to punch some of americas enemies in the face.
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2019-05-09 at 4:51 PM UTCCIA tried to recruit exwife #1...no idea why she had a relatively normal job. Only thing I could think of was her dad was a Texas ranger, former military and big in the masons.
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2019-05-09 at 5:04 PM UTCA lot of CIA recruits come from masonic fraternal groups like skull and bones. A lot of them go to Yale. Some of them I imagine are recruited before they have much education at all, if they're exceptional. I'm not from any special group so I don't think they'd hire me. Might try to turn me into a mind controlled assassin though. That's what they do with expendable people who don't come from affluent areas.
