Mission possible

©Gary Cameron.

The big whistleblower Edward Joseph Snowden has recounted to Washington Post another set of conversations that he said took place three years earlier, when he was sent by the NSA’s Technology Directorate to support operations at a listening post in Japan. As a system administrator, he had full access to security and auditing controls. He said he saw serious flaws with information security.

I actually recommended they move to two-man control for administrative access back in 2009,
he said, first to his supervisor in Japan and then to the directorate’s chief of operations in the Pacific.
Sure, a whistleblower could use these things, but so could a spy.

That precaution, which requires a second set of credentials to perform risky operations such as copying files onto a removable drive, has been among the principal security responses to the Snowden affair.

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer’s approach to problem-solving. He had come to believe that a dangerous machine of mass surveillance was growing unchecked.
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There Patriot Act II, which gave power to all that had already been written when the 9/11 exploded. Then the emergency law was adopted at breakneck speed to legitimize this one intelligense job.
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You recognize that you’re going in blind, that there’s no model, Snowden said, acknowledging that he had no way to know whether the public would share his views.

Yes, it is a pioneering part (in the world). you got it.