Spy dies in prison. This might him home for some of our senior members. Apparently they were considering parole for him. I've only heard second hand of the impact his actions had on our ASW. Good riddance.
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Cold War spy John Walker dies in prison
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Makes you wonder what someone like Snowden revealed.
From some (limited) reading I've done, probably not as much as the press likes to make it sound. It appears that along with some of the programs he revealed, there was also a decent amount of disinformation being put forth in his name by the KGB (or whatever they're called now).
mitrokhin
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There has been a lot of speculation as to what he took or didn't, and it is clear that people not in the know (RE: us) will never know.
But even then, it may not even matter if he did or did not sell secrets. If our government can't know the extent of what was removed, the mere threat of having a compromise is more than enough to change operations or bring the entire National Security Agency into question. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time people have called for the closure of the NSA and CIA. They really need to be far removed from the public eye to do what it is that they do.
The NSA came to my college campus, and I know of a few students who were either actively recruited or were going through the gambit of having SSBIs done or polygraph tests done and so on. And to be quite honest, if they are looking for mathematicians of this kind and character, then it gives me hope that the intel apparatus isn't so cloak and dagger after all. The young people that they are recruiting are by no means "yes men", although they are patriotic, and I think that is reassuring.
I'm sorry if this is off topic.
But even then, it may not even matter if he did or did not sell secrets. If our government can't know the extent of what was removed, the mere threat of having a compromise is more than enough to change operations or bring the entire National Security Agency into question. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time people have called for the closure of the NSA and CIA. They really need to be far removed from the public eye to do what it is that they do.
The NSA came to my college campus, and I know of a few students who were either actively recruited or were going through the gambit of having SSBIs done or polygraph tests done and so on. And to be quite honest, if they are looking for mathematicians of this kind and character, then it gives me hope that the intel apparatus isn't so cloak and dagger after all. The young people that they are recruiting are by no means "yes men", although they are patriotic, and I think that is reassuring.
I'm sorry if this is off topic.
LET73
Well-Known Member
Good riddance.
All I'm going to say about Snowden here is that I hope he's enjoying Moscow as much as Kim Philby did.
Long removed from the game, but If I were to make an educated guess about Snowden's impact, it has to framed as compromised methods and intelligence at and about non-state actors and state actors, and whether state actors who have the capacity the analyze and modify behavior based on the information are willing to share with the non-state actors.
Oh.....and FUCK Walker! We should have killed him a long time ago.
Oh.....and FUCK Walker! We should have killed him a long time ago.
Or just one in the head.......one shot.....one kill.....be a good steward of taxpayer money.
What he has revealed is pretty bad to include plenty of info on the how and the who in addition to the 'whistleblower' stuff he proclaims is the reason behind his disclosures.
As this country's largest single employer of mathematicians they are always looking for more than a few good ones who are just as motivated and have just as much character as the folks serving this country in uniform.
One Walker to go and let's get Snowden next inline!
Snowden was a moron. He traded a high-paying job in Hawaii (and a hot girlfriend) for a low-level tech support job in freezing Siberia.
Definitely didn't think that one through, did ya Snowden?....
