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mc808 on Oct 21, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: CIA Director John Brennan emails

Matthew Cole had an interesting talk a while back about how Italy was able to implicate the CIA in a kidnapping and identify several agents, using cell phone tracking technology provided by the US.

(Edit: Oops, Matthew Cole, not Jacob Appelbaum.)

dublinben on Oct 22, 2015 | [–]

Iran and Hezbollah were able to do the same thing with CIA operatives in Beirut using only commercial-grade software.[0]

[0]http://gawker.com/5861484/iran-and-hezbollah-caught-all-the-...

godgod on Oct 21, 2015 | [–]

While not a talk by Applebaum, this video is semi-related and showing OPSEC failures by CIA using cell technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0PmwOlifE

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