Intelligence leaks are an opportunity as well as a threat, says Thomas Rid
The scholar of spycraft says the private sector learns a lot from security breaches
OVER THE past dozen or so years, America’s government and its intelligence apparatus has suffered five mega-leaks: the release of diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks in 2010; the disclosures by Edward Snowden in 2013; the publication of National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA hacking tools in 2016 and 2017; and, now, the appearance of large amounts of intelligence reports on Discord, a messaging platform.
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