alex.moskalyuk

Any James Bond fan would be eager to tell you how the technology used by the intelligence community far supercedes anything available to mere mortals. However, as The New York Times Magazine discovers, the three-letter agencies asre consistently relying on twentieth-century technologies, where the information is not shared between agencies, making it extremely difficult to connect the dots, such as CIA reports, NSA findings and local police reports. The result? Impossibility to predict the September 11th attacks, even though anybody with access to all the pieces of information could probably alert the higher-ups. A small group of enthusiasts in CIA, FBI and Department of Defense are promoting the use of intelligence blogs and wikis for sharing information among the agencies.