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Yeah but Snowden had that level of access simply because he applied for the job, with the full intention of using it to do leaking.
by peoplewindow 9y ago
Yeah but Snowden had that level of access simply because he applied for the job, with the full intention of using it to do leaking.
- angry_octet 9y agoThat he was selected for this job is a fault of Congress, for imposing caps on government employee numbers (and salaries), but not contractors, during the greatest period of SIGINT expansion in history (also authorised by Congress), and then outsource their vetting to the cheapest bidder. Oh, and have a President that creates a secret law for side stepping the Constitution. Of course, given a defective Congress, what should the IC have done? Limit their use of computers? Stop sharing information? Encrypt everything on servers and decrypt client side via special hardware? Have someone watch the admins as if they are all wannabe traitors? Disperse honeypot systems and canary docs everywhere? Tripwire the heck out of every system? Fit explosive collars on systems administrators? Well, all those things and more have now been contemplated. Everything except 'stop collecting'.
- boomboomsubban 9y agoHe had that access as he had been working for first the CIA, then the NSA, for five years before he decided to become a whistleblower.
- peoplewindow 9y agoIf you go read his story in detail you'll see that he held various jobs, but he applied for a transfer to become a sysadmin specifically (a job downgrade) because he was collecting info to leak by that point, and knew he could access more if he had admin privs.q
- boomboomsubban 9y agoI have read his story in detail, he hadn't been a systems admin for a few years when he decided to began copying documents. There wasn't a demotion, he had the same title at two departments. And his decision to become a whistleblower came from what he saw at the new department.