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It was reported in the news today that the USA is looking to tighten access to classified material as, currently, about one million US citizens have a top sec

• LeifCarrotson 3y ago
  While it would be intractable to upend the status quo of about 0.5% of American adults using that access to get things done day-to-day, there's a lot that could be improved just by compartmentalizing that access and monitoring it. It's one thing for an IT admin on a Massachusetts national guard post to get access to a few local secrets. It's another when he's downloading hundreds of documents unrelated to his duties on a war thousands of miles away. Your average file share or web server for a medium-sized corporation with a negligible amount of confidential data probably has that level of monitoring, it's not particularly surprising that the slower-moving military doesn't yet but it probably should.
  • kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
    The shameful thing is this is the same scenario with the Manning leaks and nothing has been done to institute stronger access restrictions since. The military consistently refuses to operate by the same secrecy requirements that DoD contractors have to adhere to.
    • pseudo0 3y ago
      There is a constant ebb and flow between more sharing of information and less sharing of information. Bad things happen because of not sharing enough intel (eg. the 9/11 report)? Time to loosen restrictions. Bad things happen because of overly lax sharing of information (eg. Manning)? Time to lock things down. Both postures have costs and benefits that are difficult to quantify. This tends to cause knee-jerk reactions based on the latest crisis.