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Re:CIA Director John Brennan emails by mc808 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:10PM (#10429121)
Matthew Cole had an interesting talk a while back about how Italy was able to implicate the CIA in a kidnapping and identify several agents, using cell phone tracking technology provided by the US.

(Edit: Oops, Matthew Cole, not Jacob Appelbaum.)

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Re:CIA Director John Brennan emails by dublinben on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:32PM (#10430255)
Iran and Hezbollah were able to do the same thing with CIA operatives in Beirut using only commercial-grade software.[0]

[0]http://gawker.com/5861484/iran-and-hezbollah-caught-all-the-...

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Re:CIA Director John Brennan emails by godgod on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:17PM (#10429172)
While not a talk by Applebaum, this video is semi-related and showing OPSEC failures by CIA using cell technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0PmwOlifE
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