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US Military Will Soon Begin Testing NSA's New, Post-Snowden Security Measures (dailydot.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the knocking-on-the-wall dept.

Patrick O'Neill writes: The U.S. military will closely review the NSA's security measures as concerns mount that foreign adversaries and independent hackers are targeting the American government in cyberspace. "We will determine whether National Security Agency processes and technical controls are effective to limit privileged access to National Security Agency systems and data and to monitor privileged user actions for unauthorized or inappropriate activity," Carol Gorman, the Pentagon's assistant inspector general, wrote in the letter.

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  1. Post-Snowden NSA by DrYak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed, if a lone consultant like E. Snowden could pull such a leak, one can imagine what entities with far more resources and know-how (like the Russian FSB / former KGB) have been doing for years.

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    1. Re:Post-Snowden NSA by shawn2772 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, to stop someone like Snowden you don't need an absolute dictatorship. You need to restrict access to systems so that employees only have access to the things they need.

      That won't work if you're doing things that are morally outrageous, because employees that need access do need access, and if one of them develops a conscience there's no way you can stop them from sharing the information. With draconian measures you can make it hard for them to extract solid proof, but that's all you can do, and that's very hard.

      You know, the things that competent corporate IT usually does already.

      LOL. In 20 years in the business, what I've seen is that almost no corporate IT departments are competent to secure their own data.

    2. Re:Post-Snowden NSA by penguinoid · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Personally, I'm totally Snowden-proof, and I don't have a fraction of the resources of the NSA. To stop someone like Snowden, all you need to do is stop committing tons and tons of crimes.

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  2. As Mr. Franklin said... by olsmeister · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Three people can keep a secret... if two of them are dead.

  3. Re:Errr...thanks? by internerdj · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Welcome to the US. When something needs to be done politically then today is too late. Doing it correctly is never as important as doing something now. If we go through the proper process, the voters won't remember why it was a political success.