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How a Star Wars website got CIA agents killed 08:15 - May 29 with 475 views

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-cia-operated-a-network-of-gaming-sit

A relatively short article, an interesting side note from the history of espionage and the incredible revelation that the CIAs network of sites had sequential IP numbers!

How a Star Wars website got CIA agents killed on 10:45 - May 29 with 280 views

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Whoever ran the programme* probably wasn't even aware it was a problem. Neither, likely, were the administrators who were instructed to obtain the webspace. That's how mistakes get made.

* 15 to 20 years ago, including planning. The internet was a rather different place then. Plus the decisionmakers would have risen to seniority in the decades when it was a very young thing indeed.

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