Spy Space

September 8th, 2008

Someone has been working there sales jobs pretty well lately. Even the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency are testing a social-networking site designed for use by analysts within the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. Interesting concept. At least how they are talking about it being a Facebook for spies and all. Of course none of this is available to the public anyways so knowing if they actuall y find it useful is besides the point.

“It’s every bit Facebook and YouTube for spies, but it’s much, much more,” Michael Wertheimer, assistant deputy director of National Intelligence for Analysis, told CNN. “It’s a place where not only spies can meet but share data they’ve never been able to share before. This is going to give them for the first time a chance to think out loud, think in public amongst their peers, under the protection of an A-Space umbrella.”

“We’re building (a) mechanism to alert that behavior. We call that, for lack of a better term, the MasterCard, where someone is using their credit card in a way they’ve never used it before, and it alerts so that maybe that credit card has been stolen,” Wertheimer told CNN. “Same thing here. We’re going to actually do patterns on the way people use A-Space.”