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Logged In and Sharing Gossip, er, Intelligence

The New York Times
AMERICA’S spies, like America’s teenagers, are secretive, talk in code and get in trouble if they’re not watched closely. It’s hard to imagine spies logging on and exchanging "whuddups" with strangers, though. They’re just not wired that way. If networking is lifeblood to the teenager, it’s viewed with deep suspicion by the spy. The intelligence agencies have something like networking in mind, though, as they scramble to adopt Web technologies that young people have already mastered in the millions. The idea is to try to solve the information-sharing problems inherent in the spy world. Full story...

Posted by Editor at September 5, 2007 01:26 PM