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HN, and many of the technical writers covering this story, are missing out on a major subtext of this story. I'm on my phone, so I can't cite my source, but loo
by karlkatzke 13y ago
HN, and many of the technical writers covering this story, are missing out on a major subtext of this story. I'm on my phone, so I can't cite my source, but look at the actual quotes from NSA staff.
They're not laying off 90% of the people that performed system administration tasks, they're revoking the administration rights of 90% of the people that have them.
That means that their Windows domain was so badly administered that only 10% of the people who have Administrator roles were performing administration tasks.
I doubt anyone is actually losing their job nor do I think they're adding significant automation.
- courtneywylie 13y agoHere's the Reuters quote from NSA Director Keith Alexander that most people (myself included) are using for this: "What we’re in the process of doing – not fast enough – is reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent."
- karlkatzke 13y agoThe piece that's missing that I can't find right now, but was fully quoted by the BBC, is the adjacent sentence, which was about how they had been too permissive with user permissions.