The NSA's 'Twitter For Spies' Has Over 60,000 Users
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Data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request reveals just how popular the NSA's social network for spies called eChirp really is.
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@JoYo absolutely they would be. They gravitate towards fringe gatherings, partially because that’s where radicalisation generally occurs

The Doctor
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That’s DHS.

And then they encourage it to fester so they can claim a larger budget

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@JoYo, not only, Lemmy right now

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I wonder if any spies got drawn into protracted shitflinging like the civilian Twitter?

The Doctor
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NSA? Yes. CIA? Probably not. They don’t have that kind of imagination. c.f., the internal parody of The Hunt for Red October they declassified about a decade ago.

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fair, I think JWICS was for DoD only.

The Doctor
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I don’t think JWICS is DoD only. In theory, any TLA or FLA that handles TS material, has a SCIF and a local JWICS LAN can’t be hooked into the rest of the JWICS network.

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I thought NSA had a completely different one called Tapioca. /shrug

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It wouldn’t surprise me. The definitely have a need for their own entirely separate network.

No way man, I was on identi.ca

was surprised to learn I technically still am, and password recovery even worked after >10 years since previous log in, and I hear rumors the original dev is back and will be releasing integrated support with ActivityPub this summer.

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eChirp is a fork of identica, did you read the article?

the original identi.ca devs are all active with the activity pub protocol project.

it was supposed to be humerus.

all I was saying that I’ve probably been on the 'verse longer than the feds

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I upvoted and was just including context.

@JoYo I’m not seeing anything in the article linking #eChirp to the #Fediverse

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it was a fork of identi.ca

Tor as well…

Obviously, the know the ins and outs and so all of them want to be decentralised and secure on the fediverse!

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