My guess at your tone is smugness, but please know that these are totally different things. As the article hints, there are significant costs to limiting distri

My guess at your tone is smugness, but please know that these are totally different things. As the article hints, there are significant costs to limiting distribution. They don't do the problem justice in the slightest. When you restrict access to this stuff, you do it by creating a registration list that inevitably takes weeks to get on, because someone at the requesting command has to get three people, one of whom is probably out for a few weeks, to approve the request and then approve it at the controlling command in a similar process. If you're lucky, the systems are all working and that's all the wait there is, but a person can easily spend dozens of hours of work getting to the point where he can wait several weeks for access. Repeat that excessively, and people just stop using the best intel because it's a pain. Repeat that for a few years and no one at the command even remembers where to get good intel, if they even recall its existence. Cross-org collaboration is a fragile beast in the absence of sales, marketing, profits, etc. At its heart, this most recent problem of insider attack is the same problem as Snowden, and most people reject outright the idea that Snowden was wrong. Anyway, I liked being able to read these; it was nice while it lasted.