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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03intelligence.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
By CLIVE THOMPSON
Published: December 3, 2006
When Matthew Burton arrived at the Defense Intelligence Agency in January 2003, he was excited about getting to his computer. Burton, who was then 22, had long been interested in international relations: he had studied Russian politics and interned at the U.S. consulate in Ukraine, helping to speed refugee applications of politically persecuted Ukrainians. But he was also a big high-tech geek fluent in Web-page engineering, and he spent hours every day chatting online with friends and updating his own blog. When he was hired by the D.I.A., he told me recently, his mind boggled at the futuristic, secret spy technology he would get to play with: search engines that can read minds, he figured. Desktop video conferencing with colleagues around the world. If the everyday Internet was so awesome, just imagine how much better the spy tools would be.
Are the United States intelligence agencies in trouble? But when he got to his cubicle, his high-tech dreams collapsed. “The reality,†he later wrote ruefully, “was a colossal letdown.â€
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03intelligence.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
By CLIVE THOMPSON
Published: December 3, 2006
When Matthew Burton arrived at the Defense Intelligence Agency in January 2003, he was excited about getting to his computer. Burton, who was then 22, had long been interested in international relations: he had studied Russian politics and interned at the U.S. consulate in Ukraine, helping to speed refugee applications of politically persecuted Ukrainians. But he was also a big high-tech geek fluent in Web-page engineering, and he spent hours every day chatting online with friends and updating his own blog. When he was hired by the D.I.A., he told me recently, his mind boggled at the futuristic, secret spy technology he would get to play with: search engines that can read minds, he figured. Desktop video conferencing with colleagues around the world. If the everyday Internet was so awesome, just imagine how much better the spy tools would be.
Are the United States intelligence agencies in trouble? But when he got to his cubicle, his high-tech dreams collapsed. “The reality,†he later wrote ruefully, “was a colossal letdown.â€
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Interesting article on the state of the Super Secrets, Bloggers and Wikipedia
Its all Wiki now
You could have just hired the CigMan instead
TheCigMan