America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a [...]

I like to play voyeur with my traffic – see if I can get into the heads of those who end up on my site – though it poses some difficulty as most of my visitors are gone in a matter of seconds. Apparently I do not offer enough Flash game advertisements and glitzy graphics [...]

Not exactly a news flash, but it is always interesting to hear of the exploits of petty bureaucrats – especially when they happen to run the CIA. Jones presents a withering portrait of the CIA as suffering from a timid, self-serving bureaucracy that has stifled initiative and failed to recruit meaningful spies. The CIA has [...]