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Senator X accidentally sends an email Y from an alternate email address that the US doesn't have directly linked to them (maybe they just created it). This ema

by Groxx 13y ago

Senator X accidentally sends an email Y from an alternate email address that the US doesn't have directly linked to them (maybe they just created it). This email gets filtered with no reason to assume it's from senator X. Cooperating government Z gets email Y, and discovers it's from senator X because they look more closely and connect dots the US may not have. No process could have prevented this (except stopping the sharing entirely). It's a reasonable clause.

bilbo0s 13y ago
"... (except stopping the sharing entirely)..." So the only secure path seems clear. To me at least. Again, maybe this information is not as critical as information you might be exchanging in the military. I don't know. But, to me, it seems a good example of information you don't want foreign powers being privvy to.
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opinali 13y ago
Wrong; there's one easy process that would prevent this: manual vetting of all shared information (or at least, all info that can't be automatically vetted with absolute confidence, or would not be that critical). Of course that wouldn't scale to a system that shares a big firehose of data or does that in real-time. Easy to solve too: don't share the firehose, and don't share in real-time. Collaboration with allies is fine but that should come as a distant second to protecting your own [citizen's] interests.
- tvladeck 13y ago
  > Collaboration with allies is fine but that should come as a distant second to protecting your own [citizen's] interests. What makes you think the NSA is sharing data with Israel for any other reason? We have strategic and human interests where they are located.
- Groxx 13y ago
  Except for this: "and connect dots the US may not have." A manual process could certainly do a better job, but no, it still isn't a guaranteed thing.

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Senator X accidentally sends an email Y from an alternate email address that the US doesn't have directly linked to them (maybe they just created it). This ema

by Groxx 13y ago

bilbo0s 13y ago
"... (except stopping the sharing entirely)..." So the only secure path seems clear. To me at least. Again, maybe this information is not as critical as information you might be exchanging in the military. I don't know. But, to me, it seems a good example of information you don't want foreign powers being privvy to.
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opinali 13y ago
Wrong; there's one easy process that would prevent this: manual vetting of all shared information (or at least, all info that can't be automatically vetted with absolute confidence, or would not be that critical). Of course that wouldn't scale to a system that shares a big firehose of data or does that in real-time. Easy to solve too: don't share the firehose, and don't share in real-time. Collaboration with allies is fine but that should come as a distant second to protecting your own [citizen's] interests.
- tvladeck 13y ago
  > Collaboration with allies is fine but that should come as a distant second to protecting your own [citizen's] interests. What makes you think the NSA is sharing data with Israel for any other reason? We have strategic and human interests where they are located.
- Groxx 13y ago
  Except for this: "and connect dots the US may not have." A manual process could certainly do a better job, but no, it still isn't a guaranteed thing.