By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Not only that, it's a tactic used by spy agencies: the NSA has a doctrine called "third-party collection," where they break into other spy agencies' systems to harvest all the intel they've gathered. 11025
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026There's also *fourth-party* collection, when the NSA hacks into another security agency that, in turn, has hacked into *another* security agency, and the NSA steals *all* the secrets of *both* agencies: www.techdirt.com/2015/01/21/s...techdirt.comSnowden Documents Show NSA Can't Keep Its Eyes On Its Own Papers; Harvests Data From Other Surveillance AgenciesNSA Milkshake (PDF) NSA Milkshake (Text) Fifth Party Rabbit Hole (PDF) Fifth Party Rabbit Hole (Text) Destroy (PDF) Destroy (Text) 212011
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Which is not to say that the OpenAI/Hugging Face hack is *nothing*. It's something, all right: but it's a *specific* something, with an explicable, even foreseeable trajectory. 11418
J @jaybut707.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And of course the Chinese and others do the same to the US’s NSA though they will probably deny it happens. 000
