[Air-L] Disturbing trends in social networking

[elw at stderr.org]

> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Disturbing trends in social networking
> 
> 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?


Folks who *really* work for the intelligence services are generally 
prohibited from revealing that fact for quite some time.

Fakesters, maybe?  That, or policies have changed lately... we knew one 
fellow who worked for No-Such-Agency in the database area, but it was 
something that was just not a topic of conversation...

Most of the folks brought up by the search you link are employees of 
*defense contractors* - regular private citizens, but some of whom have an 
employment history that involves them having been somehow associated with 
a three-letter agency at some point.

And there are *lots* of ways to be involved or associated with the 
3-letter agencies.

--elijah


>> 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