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>Three former senior intelligence agency figures told Reuters that the NSA now requires that before a back door is sought, the agency must weigh the potential f
by boomboomsubban 6y ago
>Three former senior intelligence agency figures told Reuters that the NSA now requires that before a back door is sought, the agency must weigh the potential fallout and arrange for some kind of warning if the back door gets discovered and manipulated by adversaries.
Meaning that before, they were free to plant as many back doors as they pleased without any concern for the consequences. And even now, they just need to think about it a bit and warn somebody, no idea who they tell, if they notice it being used.
>NSA now asserts that it cannot locate this document
This is fairly clear proof of either corruption or complete incompetence.
- duxup 6y ago"Meaning that before, they were free to plant as many back doors as they pleased without any concern for the consequences." Kinda. There apparently is some approval process and such but I'm not sure everyone at he agency was able to make such requests in the first place... I'm with your gist, I'm just not sure we know how widespread it really was. I'm not inclined to agree that it must have been ultra widespread.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoWe know that just one of the NSA's related programs, Bullrun, had a budget of $250 million a year from 2011. And by their own admission this gave them access to "vast amounts of encrypted Internet data which have up till now been discarded are now exploitable". Further, their reports mention much more activity that Snowden did not have clearance for. We don't know the full extent of their activities, but it clearly far surpassed what should be tolerable.
- appleflaxen 6y agoand it's not consideration of how many rights are violated; it's a consideration of the PR fallout. The NSA needs to be disbanded.