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This article is silly. The title suggests that if they had only listened to some guy stating the obvious 17 years ago all this could have been prevented as if
by pmorici 13y ago
This article is silly. The title suggests that if they had only listened to some guy stating the obvious 17 years ago all this could have been prevented as if "don't let your sys admin steal all your sensitive files" is some deep insight. The problem is more likely that their IT staff is woefully inept and either weren't bothering to look or didn't notice what was going on right under their noses.
- XorNot 13y agoNot even that. If the problem didn't eventuate for 17 years, then it was hardly an insipient problem. A lot changed for the internal structure of these organizations over 17 years, particularly due to 9/11.
- at-fates-hands 13y agoAgreed. It was the same thing with 9/11. There was a senator (Alan J. Dixon) in 1986 who wrote an article in Playboy called, "The Terror Next Time. The cochairman of the senate antiterrorism caucus argues that a major attack in the U.S. is inevitable." Although he points out the lack of information sharing between intelligence agencies, he was sure it would be a US based group like the KKK or Aryan Nation then some terrorist group from the Middle East. It's an interesting article either way as hindsight is always 20/20, right?
- rangibaby 13y agoHe was right about domestic terrorists in a way. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing [1] http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/terrorists/timothy-mcveigh/ http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/terrorists/timothy-m...
- dredmorbius 13y agoIf the problem didn't eventuate for 17 years That we know of. Snowden took the data public. Anyone who did otherwise wouldn't have appeared to the public eye. That's another key risk of surveillance data: we know at at least one guy walked off with it. We don't know who else could have.