[ISN] Unfollowed: How a (Possible) Social Network Spy Came Undone

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/unfollowed-how-a-possible-social-network-spy-came-undone/

[When the early information about this story was coming out, it was that 
@PrimorisEra might have been spotting and assessing targets for a 
KGB honey pot operation. Which had me wondering, what have we learned 
since Robin Sage? - WK - @c4i

http://science.dodlive.mil/2010/07/21/the-dangers-of-friending-strangers-the-robin-sage-experiment/ ]


By Spencer Ackerman
Danger Room
Wired.com
April 28, 2011

It started out with a leggy, bikini-clad avatar. She said she was a 
missile expert -- the "1st Lady of Missiles," in fact -- but sometimes 
suggested she worked with the CIA. With multiple Twitter and Facebook 
accounts, she earned a following of social media-crazed security wonks. 
Then came the accusations of using sex appeal for espionage.

Now everyone involved in this weird network is adjusting their story in 
one way or another, demonstrating that even people in the national 
security world have trouble remembering one of the basic rules of the 
internet: Not everyone is who they say they are.

"I think anyone puts pictures out online to lure someone in," the woman 
at the center of the controversy insists. "But it's not to lure men in 
to give me any information at all... I liked them. They’re pretty. 
Apparently everyone else thought so too."

This is a strange, Twitter-borne tale of flirting, cutouts, and lack of 
online caution in the intelligence and defense worlds. Professionals who 
should've known better casually disclosed their personal details (a big 
no-no in spook circles) and lobbed allegations they later couldn't or 
wouldn't support (a big no-no in all circles). It led to a Pentagon 
investigation. And it starts with a Twitter account that no longer 
exists called @PrimorisEra.

[...]


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