Hahaha! So the Russians suck in all the US embassy's rf comms. Man bites dog.! Whodathunkit?
On September 16, 2019 4:22:04 PM PDT, coderman <[email protected]> wrote: >‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >On Monday, September 16, 2019 10:57 PM, Razer <[email protected]> wrote: >... > >> "*sigh* As an old spook watcher and ComSec fan, this article >indicates to me that some kind of shakeup in Russian collection inside >the U.S. may have happened. But that is all. The authors of this >article present as ignorant fools with no background knowledge or >competency of any kind in intelligence studies and related technical >basics. They simply repeat whatever Big Lie propaganda our spooks feed >them, because that's what their publisher pays them to do. > >related, already being corrected: > >https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russian-spies-u-s-collected-encrypted-fbi-radio-traffic-huge-n1055001 > >Russian spies in the U.S. collected encrypted FBI radio traffic in huge >operation, but did they crack it? > >There may not have cracked the codes, but Russian agents gained insight >into the activities of secret FBI teams tracking Russian operatives in >the U.S. >Sept. 16, 2019, 7:54 PM UTC >By Ken Dilanian and Tom Winter > >WASHINGTON — Russian spies in the U.S. conducted a massive operation to >track and collect encrypted FBI radio traffic, but there is no evidence >they ever cracked the codes and obtained the contents of the >communications, two former senior FBI officials tell NBC News. > >Nonetheless, the [Russian >intelligence](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/possible-ex-russian-spy-cia-living-washington-area-n1051741) >success, [first reported by Yahoo >News](https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-russia-carried-out-a-stunning-breach-of-fbi-communications-system-escalating-the-spy-game-on-us-soil-090024212.html), >provided Vladimir Putin's government unprecedented insights into the >activities of secret FBI surveillance teams tracking Russian operatives >in the U.S., the former officials said. The breach occurred sometime >around 2010, and was well understood by 2012, the former officials >said. > >Much of the message traffic [the >Russians](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mueller-report-shows-trump-campaign-left-itself-wide-open-russians-n997716) >collected was processed in two Russian diplomatic facilities that the >Obama administration closed in 2016, citing Russia's interference in >the presidential election. > >"We knew that they were on to us in terms of radio traffic," one former >senior official told NBC News. "They had a huge effort they threw at >it. But we never saw content." > >Yahoo News cited former officials who said the Russians had access to >"likely the actual substance of FBI communications," but the two former >officials told NBC News they did not believe that to be true. The two >former senior officials said they had seen nothing to suggest Russia >successfully decoded encrypted U.S. government communications. Rather, >the Russians were able to detect and locate secret FBI radio >transmissions, they said. > >"What they saw was traffic around certain meetings with people who were >talking to them," one former official said. > >In some cases, the insights the Russians gleaned from the location and >movements of FBI surveillance teams led them to stop meeting with >sources in the U.S. the former official said. > >The former official added that the FBI and CIA learned of the Russian >success through some espionage successes of their own, which he >declined to detail. > >The Russian operation came at a time when the U.S. was developing its >own capability to identify covert Russian communications. From March >through May of 2010, FBI agents in New York were able to detect >specialized encrypted communications sent from the laptop of a Russian >spy, [Anna >Chapman](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/spy-who-spurned-me-anna-chapman-refuses-discuss-snowden-proposal-flna8C11292219), >to a minivan driven by a Russian government official, according to her >indictment. > >Chapman was arrested along with nine other Russians, who were accused >of acting as a network of sleeper agents sent to live in the U.S. under >non-official cover. They were deported to Russia in a spy swap. > >It was long known that the Russians were using their diplomatic >compounds in Maryland and New York as listening posts, which is why the >Obama administration seized them in December 2016, officials said. But >the CIA and FBI also learned that wives of Russian diplomats were >working in the facilities to process FBI radio traffic, said the former >senior official, who had direct knowledge of the matter. > >The news of the Russian success comes after revelations that the CIA's >method of communicating with its informants had been compromised. > >NBC News and other organizations reported in 2018 that a secret FBI–CIA >task force investigating the case of[an American CIA officer spying for >China](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/cia-china-turncoat-lee-may-have-compromised-u-s-spies-n839316) >concluded that the Chinese government penetrated the CIA's method of >clandestine communication with its spies, using that knowledge to >arrest and execute at least 20 CIA informants, according to multiple >current and former government officials. > >[Yahoo News then >reported](https://news.yahoo.com/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html) >in November that Iran also had cracked the CIA's covert communications >system, resulting in a cascading crisis that put at risk foreigners >around the world who had been recruited by the American spy agency to >provide information. > >Both of these matters are known to the Congressional oversight >committees, officials tell NBC News, but since they are classified, >there has been no public accountability. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
