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by unbehagen 3986 days ago
"As a totalitarian society, the Soviet Union valued eavesdropping and thus developed ingenious methods to accomplish it." (page 2)
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"The GUNMAN project had a major impact on the intelligence community as a whole. It brought about a greater understanding of the thinking and operations in a totalitarian society. The community became more aware of the hostile electronic threat against the U.S. As <redacted> explained, "If any other agency such as CIA or the State Department had discovered the bug, this change would not have occurred because they would not have publicized the incident." NSA, however, briefed all levels of government to warn them of the danger. NSA was not out to assess blame; it took the problem-solving approach." (p. 17)
The word "totalitarian" is hyphenated, to make the line justified. Anyone else try to search for the phrase with a Ctrl-F, come up with zero, and jump to the conclusion that the spooks had redacted the document?

I should perhaps look into having my paranoia treated.

As opposed to the US, which developed no eavesdropping methods or bugs at all.
I stopped reading, copied the exact same text to post as a comment and see it's already at the top...
Just think: if everybody posted article snippets with no commentary, we could crowdsource the entire article being redundantly posted piecemeal to HN and nobody would need to click through to the article at all.
Just did the same thing. I love this place