SpyBook (or rather, IntelligenceAnalystBook)

September 8th, 2008

SpyBook:

When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook and MySpace, you might suspect those workers are slacking off.

But that’s not the case at the CIA, the FBI and the National Security Agency, where bosses are encouraging their staff members to use a new social-networking site designed for the super-secret world of spying.

“It’s every bit Facebook and YouTube for spies, but it’s much, much more,” said Michael Wertheimer, assistant deputy director of national intelligence for analysis.

The program is called A-Space, and it’s a social-networking site for analysts within the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. [...]

Presumably when someone takes you off their Friends list on this system the result will be a wet job, a body bag and an unmarked grave.

[Via The Morning News]

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