{"id":4826,"date":"2010-03-19T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:15:14","slug":"u-s-cyberattacks-cia-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/19\/u-s-cyberattacks-cia-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. cyberattacks CIA Web site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4827\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/cyber-security-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"cyber security\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> reports the U.S. military cyberattacked and <a title=\"shut down\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/18\/AR2010031805464.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">shut down<\/a> a joint Saudi-CIA Web site which had been set up to uncover terror plots in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 The military said it was putting Americans at risk.\u00a0 International relations Professor <a title=\"Joseph Wippl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/wippl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Wippl<\/a>, a 30-year CIA operations officer, says the shutdown could have been more tactful by informing the Saudis, but it&#8217;s not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The military will always expose any clandestine operation and ignore consequences to the operation if U.S. lives could be in jeopardy. It&#8217;s the gorilla in the room.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Joseph Wippl, 617-353-8992, <a href=\"mailto:jwippl@bu.edu\">jwippl@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports the U.S. military cyberattacked and shut down a joint Saudi-CIA Web site which had been set up to uncover terror plots in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 The military said it was putting Americans at risk.\u00a0 International relations Professor Joseph Wippl, a 30-year CIA operations officer, says the shutdown could have been more tactful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[962,2492,2315,2493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}