LinkedIn social network helped to “light up” 27,000 US intelligence workers

Social networks are evil, especially for people who are engaged in all sorts of intelligence services. The other day, the Transparency Toolkit service appeared on the Web, which, according to the developers, contains information on 27 thousand employees of US intelligence services. At the same time, the base was not recruited due to some information leaks from these organizations. The service developers simply analyzed the LinkedIn database in detail, trying to identify intelligence officers for various kinds of secret code words (although some of them are known to certain circles of specialists) and some other parameters. Some LinkedIn users openly publish the name of the office they work for.

The purpose of creating such a project is to show ordinary people how many people are among us who work for intelligence services (of course, not all intelligence officers are intelligence officers, however, there are quite a lot of such employees). The service allows you to easily search for the necessary information, the service is very simple.

In addition to LinkedIn, the developers used other resources for their work to refine and supplement information on people who got into the Transparency Toolkit. These are well-known social networks and some other sources from the Web. All the information that the developers used is publicly available, and it is easy to collect something similar, if desired (of course, with some skills in working with information and analyzing data).
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The creators of the resource are three, this “gift to the security officer” was created by Brennan Novak (Mailpile protected mail developer), writer Kevin Gallagher, who studies the principles of intelligence work in various countries, and MC McGrath, the project’s founder, formerly part of the MIT Media Lab team.