“But the CIA’s interim system contained a technical error: It connected back architecturally to the CIA’s main covert communications platform”
“U.S. intelligence officers were also able to identify digital links between the covert communications system and the U.S. government itself, according to one former official—links the Chinese agencies almost certainly found as well. These digital links would have made it relatively easy for China to deduce that the covert communications system was being used by the CIA.”
How do they say… “we kill based on metadata”. A taste of their own medicine.
“But the CIA’s interim system contained a technical error: It connected back architecturally to the CIA’s main covert communications platform”
“U.S. intelligence officers were also able to identify digital links between the covert communications system and the U.S. government itself, according to one former official—links the Chinese agencies almost certainly found as well. These digital links would have made it relatively easy for China to deduce that the covert communications system was being used by the CIA.”
How do they say… “we kill based on metadata”. A taste of their own medicine.
That’s absurd, it’s like they were signing their instructions for their assets with the CIA watermark.