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I think you're overestimating the capacity of the security apparatus to monitor the security apparatus. They have so much work that they have to hire contracto
by officemonkey 13y ago
I think you're overestimating the capacity of the security apparatus to monitor the security apparatus.
They have so much work that they have to hire contractors to do it. They rely on the clearance process to weed out the untrustworthy. Re-investigations are typically at 5 year intervals.
It would not surprise me that any person they have watching the store is someone who is being chided for not doing "real" work.
Basically "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Nobody, apparently.
- mseebach 13y agoSo the same NSA that we believe to monitor all private, public and encrypted communications on the internet, and expect to render the privacy features Tor ineffective, does not have the competence to keep an eye on its own employees?
- officemonkey 13y agoSnowden is proof of that.
- lightbritefight 13y agoSnowden is proof of part of that. The part that monitored him having access to and making copies of TS data failed. It doesn't mean any other part of the apparatus is incompetent. Put another way, I have a friend who couldn't run a mile in less than an hour. He could easily put a bullet into an apple on your head at a couple hundred yards however. If we were to consider him an adversary, dismissing him because he cant run worth a damn would be unwise.
- aetherson 13y agoIt's a different competency. The NSA tries to monitor all communication. If it fails to monitor 10% of the communication, or 5%, or 1%, it is still problematic that it monitors the other 90-99%. If it retains control of the information it has captured at a 90-99% efficacy rate, on the other hand, that still basically means that it leaks information like a sieve.