Summary
In quite possibly the craziest piece of nerd-related news you’ll read this week,besides maybe the true reason why Ultron is in Marvel Rivals, it has been revealed that a seemingly innocentStar Warsfan website was actually run by the CIA. Yeah, that CIA.
Oh, and its purpose wasn’t to discuss Midochlorians orwhether Han or Greedo shot first,but rather to provide a way for informants, AKA spies, to communicate.
These Are Not The Spies You’re Looking For
The Star Wars site was one of several sites in a network built to allow covert communications, with others being centered on comedy, extreme sports and music.
“The simplest way to put it — yes, the CIA absolutely had a Star Wars fan website with a secretly embedded communication system," Zach Edwards, an independent cybersecurity researcher, said in part.
Unfortunately for the spies in question,many of them died, as these websites were actually sloppily put together, allowing nefarious bodies to sniff them out.In a previous report, it was noted that simply typing a password into the search bar opened up a login screen to begin communication with the CIA.
Not only was it possible to parse out the communication channel, but because the network of sites had sequential IPs, it was entirely possible to find multiple sites by just knowing one. Nowadays,if you go to the website, you’ll automatically be redirected to the real-life CIA.gov site, a surefire sign as any that everything that’s been revealed is indeed truer than Darth Vader being Luke’s father.
