By An intriguing report at Dark Horizons has revealed how a Star Wars fan site was actually a covert communications tool for CIA operatives.
The announcement of the Star Wars prequels in the mid-1990s was the event that pretty much lit the spark that would become the fire of the internet movie community movement.
The voracious appetite for news, and speculation on those movies, brought us all flocking to the websites that would become internet legends and even affect strategy at major studios.
What none of us expected, 30 years later, was to find out that at least one of them was actually a CIA front.
Assigned to hunt down fans of Attack Of The Clones
Techspot and 404 Media are reporting that an independent security researcher – Ciro Santilli – recently ran some checks on websites from that era and uncovered some sites the CIA built to allow them to communicate covertly with informants in other countries.
One of these was Star Wars fan site StarWarsWeb.net. They all contained a covert login system that would unlock a secure line to CIA handlers.
One of these guys could be Grando Calrissian
The report has subsequently appeared in The Daily Mail and quotes security specialist Zach Edwards who confirms:
“The simplest way to put it – yes, the CIA absolutely had a Star Wars fan website with a secretly embedded communication system. And while I can’t account for everything included in the research from Ciro, his findings seem very sound.”
The story gets darker, as it turns out that the pages were rudimentary, badly coded and unprotected so counterintelligence teams from foreign powers managed to find them, identify some assets and had them executed.
Now we are worried that is why SuperShadow disappeared so suddenly.
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