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NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove
krakman writes "According to a NY Times article, a 6-month internal investigation has not been able to define the actual files that Edward Snowden had copied. There is a suspicion that not all the documents have been leaked to newspapers, and a senior NSA official (Rick Ledgett), who is heading the security agency's task force examining Mr. Snowden's leak, has said on the record that he would consider recommending amnesty for Mr. Snowden in exchange for those unleaked documents. 'They've spent hundreds and hundreds of man-hours trying to reconstruct everything he has gotten, and they still don't know all of what he took,' a senior administration official said. 'I know that seems crazy, but everything with this is crazy.' That Mr. Snowden was so expertly able to exploit blind spots in the systems of America's most secretive spy agency illustrates how far computer security still lagged years after President Obama ordered standards tightened after the WikiLeaks revelations of 2010."
Most of what Wikileaks has released is about Scientology. Yup SCIENTOLOGY. Really? Papers about some Nut House?
Wil=kileaks == FAIL
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From the viewpoint of the government, the American public appear to be enemies of the United States.
People keep trying to pull this rhetorical nonsense of describing the American people as "the enemy," and it is utter nonsense - just plain stupid. If you want to do that, then please describe how you could inform 300,000,000 Americans about the most secret inner working of the intelligence agencies without the information also leaking to the many spies and terrorist group members or associates in the US, and ultimately to foreign adversaries? I think you need to demonstrate how you could do that if you want to suggest that the information shouldn't be protected by agencies and the legislators doing their job as representatives in a democratic republic. If you want a practical demonstration as to why your idea is really bad, just try sharing your account name and PINs with 100 of your closest friends and see how things turn out in a year or two.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Are you kidding? Is that really your answer?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell