Of course other agencies (e.g. the DEA) are doing this. So hustle up some whistleblowers to make that newsworthy. Hustle up stories about how normal citizens (not druggies or drooling pervs, not that either taking drugs or drooling should be a crime) can be hurt by this.

The "news" follows what's hot,

Actually, SecretAgent seems to rotate with every page load. And not just the user agent, but some other headers, too. I find it works best if you edit the list of possibilities to remove the ones that often display screwy (few websites are optimized for Mosaic anymore).

You don't have to be an exit node to run Tor. You don't even have to run as a relay, though if you can, that helps everybody's speed.

It doesn't, either. I just tried installing it.

It's mostly the font list that gives the show away.

I doubt it, unless you're including agents of assorted national governments as "terrorists". Private groups aren't going to have the resources to long-term plant members who may never find anything relevant. If your thing is fomenting revolution in Chechnya, having somebody end up being second attache to the embassy in the Philippines or monitoring the cocaine trade in Colombia is a waste you can't afford.

Now, I'd be surprised if the governments of Russia, China, Israel, Cuba, India, Pakistan, et al. were not trying to infiltrate the CIA. They've got long time horizons and resources that the poor schmuck who's humping a cannister of poison gas from Saudi Arabia to Damascus can only dream of.

And there are stories already, where some rebels tell an AP reporter that their guys were just transporting/storing the shit for another group, and didn't know what it was, and there was this accident, and a bunch of their guys got killed.

Could even be true. Of course, it could be a cover story for a rebel gas attack intended to be blamed on the government ("we didn't do it on purpose!"), or one rebel group setting another up to take the fall, or it could be Syrian government disinformation (Russian news sources are carrying this story), or it could just be another rumor in the fog of war.

Meanwhile, Obama says the US has proof it came from the Syrian government, of course the details are secret, but he wouldn't lie to us.

You can't trust anybody to be telling the truth in situations like this. Everyone may be lying.

True.

But if they don't catch the gunman, who's to say who did it? You're right, the CIA would probably be blamed, and it would be horrible PR for the US. Good thing there aren't any countries that would like to bring the US horrible PR.

But if the CIA wanted to avoid horrible PR, shooting probably wouldn't be a good choice, it looks so intentional. After all, a lot of people die in auto and pedestrian accidents, and judging from dashcam youtube videos, Russian highways are a madhouse anyhow. Or sometimes they just get sick, and die in spite of the efforts of doctors to save them. Or drink too much and fall off balconies. Get lost and have an accident while camping. It's scary really, the variety of things that can befall even the most careful person.

Not officially, no. And we know how scrupulously the various government agencies obey the law.

Well, the US scores pretty bad on the "control" metric (DMCA, TOS against servers, throttling, etc.). Not too bad on censorship, unless maybe you try to put up a website for some organization on the government's current (and arbitrary) list of enemies. As home of the NSA and its kindred organizations (who sometimes lie in court about where their data came from), probably the most "monitored" of any country, though places like China and Saudi Arabia try pretty hard, too.

And I'd say the "data privacy" is just as important as "controlled, censored, and monitored". The US scores terrible on that metric.

She's not an attorney.

Just because they won't let you see it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. For example, when they pass along mail to the DEA, who then lies to courts about where they got it.

If he shows up for DEFCON, maybe I'll agree with you.

According to TFA, it cost $200, two months' wages. Of course, that was at the hotel gift shop, and it's entirely possible that NK hotels are as good at gouging customers as hotels in other places, and that it might have been quite a bit cheaper from some other store.

"English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nichol
Under those conditions, it would be unwise to expect too much precision as words move into English. Not to speak of the fact that over time, some English words change meanings. And the young whippersnappers think everything that happened before they were born is "ancient".

Besides, the original article was written by Germans.

For certain values of "our".

Most wars do nothing but evil.