[Air-L] Disturbing trends in social networking

Michael Zimmer michael.zimmer at nyu.edu
Wed Sep 12 17:06:35 PDT 2007


Of course, intelligence operatives reportedly have their own sns: A- 
Space
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2178210,00.asp>

-mz

On Sep 12, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Heather wrote:

> In addition, individuals should only be able to see those with whom  
> they are
> connected through their local or extended networks. For most  
> people, this
> would not include every analyst currently or formerly employed by  
> any of the
> security agencies.
>
> Heather
>
> On 9/12/07, Michael Zimmer <michael.zimmer at nyu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I don't see the "disturbing trend" here. These are
>> analysts (ie, sit in cubicles at Langley and interpret data)  not
>> field operatives (spies). Am I missing something?
>>
>> -mz
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Alexis Turner wrote:
>>
>>> I was tooling around on LinkedIn today and stumbled on the
>>> following horrifying
>>> realization:
>>> U.S. intelligence analysts announce their names, what they do,
>>> every position
>>> they have ever worked in, and a list of all their associates to a
>>> public
>>> audience on LinkedIn.
>>>
>>> http://redheadedstepchild.org/lists/scratchpad/entry61/
>>>
>>> Has anyone noticed this before?  Other thoughts?
>>> -Alexis
>>>
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