It really made me laugh, and think about the pointlessness of the whole organisation of British Intelligence.
Are we really clear that MI5/6, NSA, GCHQ etc have any benefit at all. Isn't it just a matter of of an arms race, where each country keeps raising the stakes? It is already clear that the NSA have produced dangerous cyber weapons which have escaped into the wild.
The secrecy is the perfect excuse for empire building. You can imagine they are filled with paranoid idiots who want every bit of information going, but never analyse it into anything useful.
RE WW2 it is not clear at all that the USA was at a disadvantage due to lack of intelligence. In the UK we love to celebrate our great code breaking efforts, whilst simultaneously the Germans were breaking ours...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-...
It really made me laugh, and think about the pointlessness of the whole organisation of British Intelligence.
Are we really clear that MI5/6, NSA, GCHQ etc have any benefit at all. Isn't it just a matter of of an arms race, where each country keeps raising the stakes? It is already clear that the NSA have produced dangerous cyber weapons which have escaped into the wild.
The secrecy is the perfect excuse for empire building. You can imagine they are filled with paranoid idiots who want every bit of information going, but never analyse it into anything useful.
RE WW2 it is not clear at all that the USA was at a disadvantage due to lack of intelligence. In the UK we love to celebrate our great code breaking efforts, whilst simultaneously the Germans were breaking ours...