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Thats what happens when you outsource your administrators. If i remember correctly the CIA made a hosting deal with Amazon. So every high level Amazon administ
by spdy 13y ago
Thats what happens when you outsource your administrators.
If i remember correctly the CIA made a hosting deal with Amazon.
So every high level Amazon administrator can access highly classified informations.
And for Snowden he saw the black hole and everything they are planning he must have seen some very scary stuff, hopefully he wont be the guy in jail or death with a mark on his head "Told you so." and we did not act.
- ImprovedSilence 13y ago>> Thats what happens when you outsource your administrators. Wait, I understand that he was a contractor. But wasn't he previously an NSA employee too. So he basically stayed in the same chair, but just got a bigger pay check. Revolving door and all that. I wouldn't go so far as to call it outsourced, his work was still 'in-house'.
- cdash 13y agoI believe he worked at both the NSA and the CIA but I don't think in the same capacity.
- Jtsummers 13y agohttp://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2013/0321/Amazon-enters-600M-deal-to-develop-CIA-cloud http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2013/0321/Amazon-enters-... Amazon will be developing it, and probably managing it, but it is not part of the primary Amazon infrastructure so outside of those contracted to work specifically on the CIA system, Amazon employees shouldn't have access.
- ianstallings 13y agoYou know I keep hearing this myth. As if a real employee/agent could never leak information. TS/SCI clearance is the same for everyone. Cleared is cleared.
- amitparikh 13y agoNo it's not. All classified material is provided on a "Need to Know" basis. You can't just have a clearance and get access to every classified document out there, that's ridiculous.
- ianstallings 13y agoYes I'm aware of that. I never said that one would gain access to all information simply because they have a clearance..
- frankydp 13y agoJust to expounded. Once you get passed Secret almost everything is compartmentalized. To speak to the Snowden leaks, in there entirety they now are clearly, far outside the scope of any single user, unless that user was a multi-department head or higher. It is more likely that the leaks are from multiple users now. The story posted yesterday about the access level of the information lends this theory some credibility, although none to the means of access.
- ianstallings 13y agoMore info on that, the press rumor that he gained access to other user credentials: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/29/20234171-snowden-impersonated-nsa-officials-sources-say?lite http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/29/20234171-...
- frecklebob 13y agoRegarding Amazon, I highly doubt that. As an Amazon employee, I know that only staff administrators with government clearance/certification can access AWS-GovCloud systems for maintenance. And the auditing of maintenance is pretty intense too.
- atonse 13y agoThere is no difference in the amount of scrutiny given to contractors' background checks vs. government employees. Take for example the fact that all weapons used in the military are designed and built by private contractors. Would you say it's a risk to allow contractors to have full access to weapons data when they are the ones that design and build it?