The fact that Stalin had executed so many of his previous intelligence chiefs — in the case of military intelligence, the last five — did not encourage his intelligence officials to talk back.
The hack breached Gemalto's office networks, but it "could not have resulted in a massive theft of SIM encryption keys," and "in the case of an eventual key theft, the intelligence services would only be able to spy on communications on second generation 2G mobile networks.
In the case of the intelligence service, the United Nations reported a lower incidence of torture.
In the case of artificial intelligence, though, Global Challenges Foundation's report is part of a wider debate about possible risks as AI gets more powerful in the future.
In the case of the intelligence world, where a high degree of insularity is essential, the cloak of language renders spooks and their civilian critics mutually alien.
In the case of machine intelligence, it can be a major strategic decision regarding timing: when to shift from in-house training to on-the-job learning.
In the case of the intelligence community, it was somewhat more haphazard, although if you go back to 1946, Bill Donovan, the former head of the O.S.S., was warning against the perils of excessive Balkanization even then.
Psyops need not be conducted by nation states; they can be undertaken by anyone with the capabilities and the incentive to conduct them, and in the case of private intelligence contractors, there are both incentives (billions of dollars in contracts) and capabilities.
In the case of the intelligence agencies, however, some have complained that the move to Tumblr is more sizzle than substance, and that the documents released so far are not, in fact so open and accessible but heavily redacted and missing search, copy or paste functions.
