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• jessaustin 13y ago
  Hmmm. The impression I have is that Snowden had access as a sysadmin, not as an analyst. That is, he didn't really have any duties that called for him to access the "secret" data. If the systems allow sysadmins to bypass proper authorization procedures, what good is another authorization procedure? Perhaps they'd be better off auditing the ACLs. In the Cloud Era, very few machines ever need to allow root access. However, this scheme would seem to prevent previous "laptop leaks", so I think it's a good idea.