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THE NATIONAL SECURITY Agency knows Edward Snowden disclosed many of its innermost secrets when he revealed how aggressive its surveillance tactics are. What it doesn't know is just how much information the whistle-blower took with him when he left.
For all of its ability to track our telecommunications, the NSA seemingly has little clue exactly what documents, or even how many documents, Snowden gave to the media. Like most large organizations, the NSA had tools in place to track who accessed what data and when. But Snowden, a system administrator, apparently was able to cover his tracks by deleting or modifying the log files that tracked that access.
An Estonian company called Guardtime says it has a solution to that: using the same ideas that underpin the digital currency Bitcoin, the company says it can ensure no one can alter digital files, not even an organization's most senior executives or IT managers. The idea is to stop the next Snowden in his tracks by making it impossible to tamper with data, such as the NSA log files, in secret.
Original Submission
(Score: 5, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday June 05 2015, @01:04AM
Snowden was able to do what he did because a system that was already in place at other locations was not implemented in the NSA's Hawaii location where Snowden pilfered the data.
Of all the fucking places, Hawaii. Even scum like me know that Hawaii is a nexus for Asian (okay, Chinese) intelligence and their attempts to infiltrate their American counterparts through hot women wearing way too much red who ask too many questions and yet are good at lying in wait, plying dumb pedophiliac White men with alcohol and then luring those same suckers into bed with their tight little yellow bodies.
All it takes is a few drinks and dips of the wick and even the most hardened (heh) and patriotic security personnel are biddy-bub blabbin' all kinds of little operational details for the Yellow menace in the red uniform to consider. Of all the fucking places in the world to neglect the security upgrade, the NSA neglected fucking Hawaii?!
Jesus Christ, if Snowden was an inside job, it was because all of the NSA took a cue from Google and hired all-Chinese senior staff.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday June 05 2015, @01:48AM
I am a fan, man... Being correct and outrageous all in one!
The NSA fracked up, and probably not the best location to do it, and WHAM, YOU let the dogs out in that special way you have.
Thumbs up... Keep posting: I'll keep reading! B-)
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 05 2015, @01:49AM
Oh, no. Of course they didn't negled to fuck Hawaii, they fucked it properly, even deeper and longer than other places.
So properly that, post coitus, they were too exhausted to upgrade its security.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford