The secret unit Clarke helped create had an ominous acronym: DREAD, short for Development Research Exploitation and Analysis Department. In the years that followed, the UAE unit expanded its hunt far beyond suspected extremists.
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As time went on, the mission became less focused on preventing violent attacks than on targeting the country’s political enemies.
A federal grand jury in Washington has been investigating whether American staff violated U.S. hacking laws in the UAE mission. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department declined to comment.
Time was there were export controls on encryption. What's happening now is they're exporting cyberwar skills. The global world ain't all it's cracked up to be.
