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That's pretty sad, especially for an agency that must have a certain amount of technical competence for their day-to-day. This could be easily solved by releas
by STRML 10y ago
That's pretty sad, especially for an agency that must have a certain amount of technical competence for their day-to-day.
This could be easily solved by releasing all documents and a list of their hashes simultaneously.
- kahirsch 10y agoAnd PDF format has a built-in digital signature system.
- chris11 10y agoI think the CIA views easily accessible info as the problem, not the creation of the data. I don't think they are looking for a solution to make things more convenient.
- STRML 10y agoClearly; yet it is encouraging that CREST finally ended up online.
- danso 10y agoYeah, but they have to disseminate data and documents both internally, with sibling agencies (FBI, NSA, DoD), and to legislative and executive requests (Congressional panels, inspectors general). So, ideally they would have these best practices for sending secure documents in a reproducible/batch fashion, and reappropriate them to meet their legal obligations under FOIA.
- seanp2k2 10y agoThey probably do have such guidelines internally, and totally different and arbitrary ones for FOIA.
- elastic_church 10y agoPeople really give these agencies too much misplaced respect. The defense and intelligence communities hire from Tier 3 schools in the DC, Maryland and Virginia area. People that - you imagine - would get laughed at for not being from Stanford and Ivy League at every VC pitch meeting. People you would think weren't the "best of the best" hired by all the tech companies that brag about doing so. Of course, their engineers are just are educated and ambitious, I'm just pointing out how warped people's perception has become.
- dgrealy 10y agoYou're totally right. Your industry definitely contains the worlds smartest people by nature and everyone else is second-rate and would be laughed at if they tried to work in Silicon Valley. I mean, do you actually hear yourself? Really listen to yourself and describe what you hear.
- rl3 10y agoThe comment you're replying to appears to be explcit sarcasm, albeit oddly put.
- elastic_church 10y agoJust echoing perception. People think intelligence agencies' engineers are geniuses, but are candidates that wouldn't be considered geniuses in the private sector solely because of their pedigree.
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- bitJericho 10y agoHaving worked in government, at least half of everybody I've met would be considered too incompetent for the job, if it were a normal company. So yes, it would be easy for me to believe that government workers would be laughed at in silicon valley.
- dgrealy 10y agoThe CIA keeps secrets for a reason. All this armchair talk from prople wanting to get CIA material into the open is pure idiocy. Stupid and dangerous. You know these are the people who protect you from all manner of sabotage and manipulation from foreign nations right?
- rl3 10y agoDeclassified CIA material holds immense historical value. Each document is reviewed prior to release to ensure there's no harm done to national security.
- dgrealy 10y agoDeclassified is fine, and that's what this is about ... I just see too many people with no respect or knowledge thinking that secrets are by nature some sort of problem, and wanting classified things to be in the public domain.
- ionised 10y agoJust classify everything then. Problem solved.
- ionised 10y agoIt's good to see satire and parody thriving in the age of Trump
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoCIA material is extremely time-sensitive. Anything a year or two stale is probably fine to expose. In fact the attempt to hide every CIA activity from public scrutiny is so repressing and dangerous to a free society, that some risk is certainly warranted. Release the documents.
- kelvin0 10y agoClearly the CIA's 'public facing' departments do not have the resources, nor the incentives (from a technical standpoint) that are deployed regularly in the 'intelligence' departments of the Agency.
- travmatt 10y agoI'd presume that's not a bug, that's a feature.