[Cryptography] Early data mining efforts by the KGB defeated the CIA's efforts at blending in

Dan McDonald danmcd at kebe.com
Sun Nov 11 21:18:33 EST 2018



> On Nov 11, 2018, at 9:45 AM, iang <iang at iang.org> wrote:
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> How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field?
> Paranoid CIA heads blamed Soviet moles, but the real reason for the repeated disasters was much simpler

TL;DR --> traffic analysis works, even on people.  :)

Dan



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