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Inside NSA's Efforts To Hunt Sysadmins
An anonymous reader writes "The Snowden revelations continue, with The Intercept releasing an NSA document titled 'I hunt sys admins' (PDF on Cryptome). The document details NSA plans to break into systems administrators' computers in order to gain access to the networks they control. The Intercept has a detailed analysis of the leaked document. Quoting: 'The classified posts reveal how the NSA official aspired to create a database that would function as an international hit list of sys admins to potentially target. Yet the document makes clear that the admins are not suspected of any criminal activity – they are targeted only because they control access to networks the agency wants to infiltrate. "Who better to target than the person that already has the ‘keys to the kingdom’?" one of the posts says.'"
This is why I insist that my official job title is "Soup Dispenser Technician, Second Class" on all official documents.
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People need to be arrested for this. The people who ordered it done, wrote the reports, signed off on it, and anyone who did it. Ship some of them to various other countries for trials too, let everyone get into the action and let it be known to governments that this is not to be accepted.
Waiting for an amusing sig.
There once was an NSA operative from Nantuckett
Whose ________ was so _______ he could ________.
He said with a _________ as he wiped off his __________,
"If my __________ was a _________ I would __________ it."
Once you break into a admin's computer, with his credentials, it's a two way street.. One can plant evidence just as well as detect it..
Now that this info is public knowledge, any accused should levy a defense that the NSA planted the evidence, since they have the ability and the court has no way of identifying planted information verses unapproved activity.
Advice to NSA admins, I know it is a cushy job, but find another job NOT in the government, the NSA is on a witch-hunt it's only a matter of time before they turn innocent bystanders into criminals.
As bad as such revelations are, what drives me nuts is all the apologists who crawl out of the woodwork every time one of these stories breaks. They have no end of justification for whatever the NSA or CIA does, anything from "I have nothing to hide" to "privacy is dead, stop bitching because the Good Guys are working t protect you".
I predict the kind of practice in TFA is going to keep mushrooming until someone uses it as a political weapon and then gets caught. Only then will the jock-sniffing Congress do something substantive about this mess.
If I were advising Hillary Clinton, I'd tell her to never touch another computer until her political career is over.
But you merely adopted the shell. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the GUI until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!
The login prompts betray you, because they belong to me.
so give it your best, young man. I and my greybeards are forged in this art. We know that behind your presentation, your boldface scrawlings and your bemused predatory preamble that we have coffee ringed RFC's that have seen more fervent attempts than yours. Save yourself some grief and maybe curry our favour. target our PHB instead.
Good people go to bed earlier.