America’s Top Spy James Clapper and the Future of Cyberwar and Surveillance | WIRED
Wednesday, December 28th, 2016America’s Top Spy James Clapper
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/james-clapper-us-intelligence/ He drives around DC in a black, armored SUV w/ its own satellite dish. Wow!
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Clapper’s life is a whirl of video teleconferences and nondescript spaces—subterranean briefing rooms, flatscreen-lined command centers, and eavesdropping-proof chambers called sensitive compartmented information facilities, or SCIFs (pronounced “skiffs” in spookspeak). His armored, antenna-topped black SUV—more tank than car—even has a satellite dish to keep Clapper in secure contact wherever he’s driving around DC. When he travels, a special team converts a hotel room into a secure communications suite. His digital hearing aids are regularly checked by security to ensure that no foreign adversary is listening, and his counterintelligence team dumbs down the iPads he uses to brief the president in the Oval Office so that they can’t transmit or eavesdrop.
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