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Re:Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security fir... by optimiz3 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:18PM (#21588629)
Misdirection. The news is a spy was caught and who it was; not that the Soviet Union was attempting to subvert the Manhattan Project.
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Re:Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security fir... by tspiteri on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:20PM (#21588648)
And the news here to me is that the Spanish contractor was caught spying. So while it can be argued that the US spying is no news story, the spying by the security company is.
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Re:Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security fir... by saalweachter on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:10PM (#21591384)
Frankly I can't help but imagine that the outsourcing of everything (but especially janitorial and security staff) has made it incredibly easy for everyone from state intelligence agencies to private corporations to insert spies into interesting places.
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