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How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks
Hugh Pickens writes "Eli Lake reports that the U.S.'s 16 intelligence agencies are using a program called SureView that makes it easier to spy on the spies and catch whistleblowers early in the act. SureView is a type of auditing software that specializes in 'behavior-based internal monitoring' that monitors the intelligence officer's computer activity. If the officer acts like a potential leaker, sending an encrypted email or using an unregistered thumb drive, the analyst might push a button and watch a screen video of the officer's last hour of work. Once a case is made that a leak might be imminent, it is checkmate: the agent is thwarted. 'Had SureView been on Bradley Manning's machine, no one would know who Bradley Manning is today,' says Ryan Szedelo, manager for Raytheon's SureView software. The intelligence community has had auditing software for years. SureView came on the market in 2002. But the programs were buggy and often prone to false positives, alerting a network administrator too often to routine behavior. 'The technology has gotten substantially better in the last year,' says Jeffrey Harris, a former head of the National Reconnaissance Office. 'The problem with audit files was it took an army of people to understand them. Now we have rule-driven systems and expert systems that help us reason through the data.'"
'Had SureView been on Bradley Manning's machine, no one would know who Bradley Manning is today,'
They say that like it's a good thing...
If a spy spies a spy who spies, who spies the spy who spies the spy?
In italian is funnier because both "spy" and "spies" translate into "spia".
Se una spia spia una spia che spia, chi spia la spia che spia la spia?
'Had SureView been on Bradley Manning's machine, no one would know who Bradley Manning is today,' says Ryan Szedelo, manager for Raytheon's SureView software.
And nobody would have evidence of the serious crimes he told the world about. That's what they're really worried about.
I am officially gone from
Or, you could stop committing and covering up crimes and routinely classify any and all information regardless if it's needed or not. Then nobody would feel the need to leak the things that are rightfully secret.
Just a thought.
May we live long and die out
Oh, the jobs people work at!
Out west, near Hawtch-Hawtch,
there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher.
His job is to watch...
is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee.
A bee that is watched will work harder, you see.
Well... he watched and he watched.
But, in spite of his watch,
that bee didn't work any harder. Not Mawtch.
So somebody said,
"Our old-bee-watching man
just isn't bee-watching as hard as he can.
He ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher!
The thing that we need
is a Bee-Watcher-Watcher!"
WELL...
The Bee-Watcher-Watcher watched the Bee-Watcher.
He didn't watch well. So another Hawtch-Hawtcher
had to come in as a Watch-Watcher-Watcher!
And today all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch
are watching on Watch-Watcher-Watchering-Watch,
Watch-Watching the Watcher who's watching the bee.
You're not a Hawtch-Watcher. You're lucky, you see!
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
...that you are a murderer, stop murdering.
Most of corporate america has had this for about 10 years. I found out my old boss was using similar software like this to spy on us one day when he called me into his office with screen shots from my computer showing me looking at a tech news site and asking why I wasny working for those 5 minutes. I said, "well I am entitled 1 hour of break time per day. I never use this break time, eat lunch while working and answeing phone to be more efficient so I figured 5 minutes of looking at a job related news website would be okay." He shut up but I was horrified that hewas so paranoid. He only had 3 employees. He then installed cameras everywhere too so he could not only see what you were doing on your computer but what you were doing at your computer. This was a small comapny and we had this.. imagine what large companies have.
Don't give millions of government employees access to confidential documents. The Manning documents were likely already in the possession of all major powers.
That may very well be true. However, that isn't what he is really in trouble about. He's in trouble because he was instrumental in the documents being released to the public !
Use a VGA/DVI interception hardware device to save to external storage. People will be stuck thinking in the box so you'll have no problems whatsoever as long as you don't save or move any data "in-system".
Please don't forget to mention how SureView is awsome and ensures 100% data security while at it to keep the blinders on.
At the age when US president openly murders US citizens on a hunch and starts whatever war he wants, like a Boss (like a King) and the rest of the government doesn't stop him in his tracks.
At the age when US Supreme Court doesn't see anything wrong with the federal government going way beyond its authority on pretty much every issue, every law, every regulation, every tax.
At the age when Congress and Senate bail out banks and companies and vote to increase debt limit without ever considering the consequences.
At the age when Federal Reserve is counterfeiting currency left right and center.
At the age of fascism/corporatism on the top and Marxism/communism on the bottom.
What do you need wikileaks for? Are you blind?
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Of-course they want the specifics of their secrets to remain secrets, they are now your rulers, not your servants.
You can't handle the truth.
Three Swedish girls next time.
And two guys willing to throw everything away from the Bank of America leak.
I am a federal contractor and we're required to encrypt attachments that contain 'sensitive' information. (Which isn't to say 'classified' since that's not supposed to get tossed around in the first place.) If this were rolled out in the agency I work with, everybody and their dog would be setting off this 'alarm' every hour of every day.
Sounds like bullshit to me.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
Care to explain why you have so many blind people on your staff? Is it some kind of security measure?