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CIA 2010 covert communication websites Selected screenshots Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
This section contains some of the most interesting and a few representative screenshots of the websites found.
We intentionally omit the screenshots already reported by the Reuters article.
2010 Wayback Machine archive of starwarsweb.net
. The Star Wars one. Clearly branded websites like this are rare, which makes finding them all the much more fun. The Reuters article had two of them (Carson and rastadirect.net), so these were probably manually selected from the full hit dataset, and did not serve specifically as entry points. Most of the websites are quite boring and forgetful as you'd expect.
The subtitle "Beyond The Unknown" may be a reference to the Unknown Regions, an unexplored area of the galaxy in the Star Wars fictional universe.
The photo can still be licensed today as of 2025: www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/little-jedi-royalty-free-image/172984439. We found it by searching for "jedi boy" on gettyimages.co.uk. The photo is credited to a
madisonwi, presumably an alias based on the location Madison, Wisconsin. Here's a random website about adoption that uses it: www.adoptionadvocates.net/star-wars-adoption-language/ and where it can be seen without the watermarks.The droids can be seen e.g. at: www.amazon.co.uk/04-Kampf-Droiden-Superheftig-Jedi/dp/B004TINSW6, a promotional material for a 2008 The Clone Wars television series audio CD and available as transparent PNGs without background in several sources. The Yoda art also seems to come from that show: rpggamer.org/page.php?page=4229. One can picture the contractor's children watching that show when a lightbulb popped over their heads.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of alljohnny.com
. Source. Although alljohnny.com is one of the original Reuters examples, we are highlighting this screenshot here because the Reuters provided screenshot is from the extremely early 2004 version of the site, and it is interesting to see how this unique example was later updated in this 2011 version, the only known such case so far. The lack of OPSEC awareness is mind blowing, them reusing a domain like that after so many years in a completely new threat environment and possibly for a new asset.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of webofcheer.com scrolled to show Johnny Carson
. Source. This website is a fansite for various comedians. It is the second known reference to Johnny Carson after alljohnny.com, which was one of the original screenshots given in the Reuters article. There must have been some massive Johnny Carson fan among the CIA contractors a that time!
2011 Wayback Machine archive of iranfootballsource.com
. The third Iranian football on top of the two other published by Reuters: iraniangoalkicks.com and iraniangoals.com! Admittedly, this one is the most generic and less well designed one. But still. They pushed the theme too far!
The goalkeeper can be seen at: www.pixtastock.com/illustration/7323632.
2010 Wayback Machine archive of dedrickonline.com
. The German one.
The CIA has had a few Germany espionage scandals in the 2010s:
- 2014 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28243933: a German Intelligence Agency agent was arrested for spying for the CIA
- 2021 www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spied-merkel-other-top-european-officials-through-danish-2021-05-30/ U.S. spied on Merkel and other Europeans through Danish cables
- 2020 www.dw.com/en/how-the-uss-cia-and-germanys-bnd-spied-on-world-leaders/a-52358527 it was revealed that Germany and the USA had an agreement to spy on world leaders, notably via compromised Swiss company Crypto AG
2010 Wayback Machine archive of lesummumdelafinance.com
. The arrow graph is very popular can be seen at: www.financialexpress.com/money/top-4-global-market-risks-for-2024-that-may-impact-your-finances-3346284/ and many other sites. Source unknown.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of attivitaestremi.com
. An Italian one about extreme sports.
2010 Wayback Machine archive of noticiasmusica.net
. The Brazilian one.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of economicnewsbuzz.com
. The Korean one. Love the kawaii style!
2011 Wayback Machine archive of snapnewsfront.net
. The Japanese one.
The geisha can be seen at: www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/pretty-geisha-16813348 by Larisa Frelke, assumed accounts: x.com/larra_vit | www.xing.com/profile/Larisa_Frelke
2010 Wayback Machine archive of philippinenewsonline.net
. The Philippine one one.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of feedsdemexicoyelmundo.com
. The Mexican one.
2012 Wayback Machine archive of easytraveleurope.com
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2011 Wayback Machine archive of tee-shot.net
. One of the many golf-themed sites. Golf appears to be quite popular over in Langley. It's exactly what you'd expect for a mid-level spook to do in their free time!
2011 Wayback Machine archive of nouvellesetdesrapports.com
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2011 Wayback Machine archive of pangawana.com
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2011 Wayback Machine archive of recuerdosdeviajeonline.com
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2011 Wayback Machine archive of theworld-news.net
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2011 Wayback Machine archive of kessingerssportsnews.com
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2011 Wayback Machine archive of negativeaperture.com
. David Tong's 2009 Quantum Field Theory lectures at the Perimeter Institute Lecture 1 Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
Good animation explaining it: Video "Electron transport chain by HarvardX (2017)".
God, it's impossible! You just have to convert the entire fucking call stack all the way up to async functions. It could mean refactoring hundreds of functions.
To be fair, there is a logic to this, if you put yourself within the crappiness of the JavaScript threading model. And Python is not that much better with its Global Interpreter Lock.
The problem is that async was introduced relatively late, previously we just had to use infinitely deep callback trees, which was worse:compared to the new infinitely more readable:But now we are in an endless period of transition between both worlds.
myAsync().then(ret => myAsync2(ret).then(ret2 => myAsync3(re3)))ret = await myAsync()
ret2 = await myAsync2(ret)
ret3 = await myAsync3(ret3)It is also worth mentioning that callbacks are still inescapable if you really want to fan out into a non-linear dependency graph, usually with
Promise.all:await Promise.all([
myAsync(1).then(ret => myAsync2(ret)),
myAsync(2).then(ret => myAsync2(ret)),
])Bibliography:
- stackoverflow.com/questions/21819858/how-to-wrap-async-function-calls-into-a-sync-function-in-node-js-or-javascript
- stackoverflow.com/questions/9121902/call-an-asynchronous-javascript-function-synchronously
- stackoverflow.com/questions/47227550/using-await-inside-non-async-function
- stackoverflow.com/questions/43832490/is-it-possible-to-use-await-without-async-in-js
- stackoverflow.com/questions/6921895/synchronous-delay-in-code-execution
And then, after many many hours of this work, you might notice that the new code is way, way way slower than before, because making small functions
async has a large performance impact: madelinemiller.dev/blog/javascript-promise-overhead/. Real world case with a 4x slowdown: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook/tree/async-slow.Anyways, since you Googled here, you might as well learn the standard pattern to convert callbacks functions into async functions using a promise: stackoverflow.com/questions/4708787/get-password-from-input-using-node-js/71868483#71868483
async function Teletubbies meme
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