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Absolutely true. What you said means the NSA has the capability to put whoever they wish under the microscope and effectively bury them by proxy. The only way t
by rl3 13y ago
Absolutely true. What you said means the NSA has the capability to put whoever they wish under the microscope and effectively bury them by proxy. The only way that doesn't work is if they either have an irreproachable system of oversight, or whoever they're targeting has as led an extremely boring, uneventful life.
In theory, senior employees or executives at NSA contractors may even utilize similar tactics for anti-competitive or corporate espionage purposes.
- count 13y agoYou don't think they've thought of it being used between their contractors/executives? And that they haven't put any effort in to stopping that sort of use internally?
- dragonwriter 13y agoI'd be inclined to believe that there are likely to be controls to prevent people not authorized by higher ups within the NSA from doing this, as that would represent a security problem. I am, to put it mildly, considerably less sure that these controls operate in a manner that inhibit NSA leadership from directing that this be done in specific cases, when they feel that providing this kind of under-the-table feed of information, particularly to domestic law-enforcement when the conditions in which the information was gathered would, if it were known, prevent the use of any information derived from it in court under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.
- rl3 13y agoI'm sure there are stringent barriers in place. Thing is, when many of the senior officials at NSA are former high-level executives at contractors, and vice versa, it makes you wonder.