Assignment 1

CIA, FBI push ‘Facebook for spies’

 

            In this article, Larry Shaughnessy who writes for CNN refers to the popular social website called Facebook.  He is comparing Facebook with this new social website that is soon to come out for the CIA and FBI and all of the secret intelligence agencies.  This new website is called A-Space, it is going to be used as a way for all of the secret agencies to interact with each other over secure website.  They will be able to log on just like Facebook and access all of their friends and ask such questions dealing with Al Qaeda movements in the Middle East and basically anything they want dealing with terrorist

 

            "It's a place where not only spies can meet but share data they've never been able to share before, this is going to give them for the first time a chance to think out loud, think in public amongst their peers, under the protection of an A-Space umbrella." This is what Michael Wertheimer said; he is the assistant deputy director of national intelligence for analysis.  In my opinion this idea is very creative and seems like it will work out very well, especially since it sounds like the interface will be very simple just like Facebook so all the agencies can come together easier to get certain Intel or just simply communicating.  There might also be some flaws with it at first since all of this confidential information is on this one website, if someone was to hack into it then they would have access to everything.

 

            In the end it will be interesting to see how this goes.  This is a great idea if they can make it as secure as they say they can.  Like I said before with the way it is set up all the agencies should be able to communicate with ease and should be able to pass Intel a lot faster.  I hope this works out since in the long run this will help out the security for our country.

 

 

 

 

Work Citied

 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/09/05/facebook.spies/index.html