US scouts against the closure of social networks
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has ordered, for security reasons, to close uGov and Bridge, a popular communications platform among scouts. Both systems manufactured by Intel have Internet access, which was the reason for their closure.
The US intelligence community (it includes 16 institutions) has a number of experimental communication web services at its disposal, including Chirp (a spy version of Twitter) and Intellipedia , but these tools are much less popular, not all agents have mastered them.
The news of the closure of Internet services was sent on Friday via internal mail of several secret units. Ordinary employees express their indignation through the press , and among the agents began collecting signatures (access by password). It is hoped that under the pressure of the public, their favorite social services will leave the scouts, all the more so as they really help in the work.
The uGov (open source) mail platform at the time of its opening in 2005 was positioned as one of the first attempts to establish inter-agency cooperation. Here, employees of 16 special services could directly establish contacts with each other (prior to launching the system, such contact was allowed only with the permission of the authorities, otherwise it could lead to disciplinary actions). Regardless of the place of work, each intelligence officer received the same email address @ ugov.gov and could take part in discussions with colleagues from “competitive” agencies.
')
The second service Bridge was the only place where outside civilian experts could share with the intelligence agents the results of their expertise, even if they did not have official permission to do so.
Both services legalized what was previously considered illegal, helped to avoid standard bureaucracy and were really very useful tools, for which they were very popular with ordinary low-level intelligence officers and analysts. But the bosses, as always, decided in their own way.
The US intelligence community (it includes 16 institutions) has a number of experimental communication web services at its disposal, including Chirp (a spy version of Twitter) and Intellipedia , but these tools are much less popular, not all agents have mastered them.
The news of the closure of Internet services was sent on Friday via internal mail of several secret units. Ordinary employees express their indignation through the press , and among the agents began collecting signatures (access by password). It is hoped that under the pressure of the public, their favorite social services will leave the scouts, all the more so as they really help in the work.
The uGov (open source) mail platform at the time of its opening in 2005 was positioned as one of the first attempts to establish inter-agency cooperation. Here, employees of 16 special services could directly establish contacts with each other (prior to launching the system, such contact was allowed only with the permission of the authorities, otherwise it could lead to disciplinary actions). Regardless of the place of work, each intelligence officer received the same email address @ ugov.gov and could take part in discussions with colleagues from “competitive” agencies.
')
The second service Bridge was the only place where outside civilian experts could share with the intelligence agents the results of their expertise, even if they did not have official permission to do so.
Both services legalized what was previously considered illegal, helped to avoid standard bureaucracy and were really very useful tools, for which they were very popular with ordinary low-level intelligence officers and analysts. But the bosses, as always, decided in their own way.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/72178/
All Articles