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You all need to understand... in the age of the Internet, every governmental body which deals with computers under any veil of secrecy/classification inevitably
by solatic 10y ago
You all need to understand... in the age of the Internet, every governmental body which deals with computers under any veil of secrecy/classification inevitably uses that veil of secrecy or classification to break the law.
Every. Single. One.
It's just too easy for them not to. The incentives are stacked against them to keep the law. There are too many internal controls that are necessary to pass in order to obey the law, so just like in any other human endeavor, management will follow the path of least resistance. They are protected by national security / classification law from anybody finding out. If it leaks anyway that they broke the law? Nobody will be fired or sent to jail, and the whistle-blower will be tried for treason for leaking classified information.
If we, as citizens, abhor this behavior - we must fix the incentives. There is no other way.
- dmix 10y agoProfessional criminals lives depend entirely on their ability to conceal their crimes, or more specially their connection to crimes. It's not surprising that the intel community who are the very best in the world at concealment and containment would use that same skillset to circumvent already ineffective control systems that limit their activity. Which is why they do whatever they want. For example, Snowden didnt even have access to Tao or high level projects thanks to compartmentalization. Who knows how much deeper this stuff goes. I'd imagine we only got access to the low-hanging fruit of the NSA operations. The real dirty stuff would be in the CNE departments where they get total control of whomevers machines they want.