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by echoangle 85 days ago
Why would stuff for the intelligence community be made public? Wouldn’t it make more sense for them to keep it private?
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They already mentioned info control. Also visitor and flow data prob juicier than the archives themselves for site like .today.

Oh, and a great injection point of malware, which can be more sophisticated and selective than the DDoS under discussion. Hard to come up with a more efficient browser-0day deployment pipeline if youre flying under radar and want to be able to target arbitrary individuals.

Ours was a private archive of public content. There was a long discussion of the intelligence that could be gathered or information manipulated if it was public