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*So much for the NSA's audit of the surveillance system's users 

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (1)
Sat, 24 Aug 13 11:33 PM | 79 view(s)
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First line of defence. We do audits.

Turns out that isn't going to work out. Snowden's own example demonstrates it. The NSA surveillance system is swiss cheese for internal operators.

So this is going to be the NSA's end-game defence.

They're shocked. Shocked! Rogue actors were navigating around NSA's filters to access the NSA's information treasure trove. And now they know it, they will pursue a few of those folks diligently under the law and will resolve to train everyone else.

Whereas Snowden said the NSA's filters were deliberately weak so operators could disregard them. The NSA was happy for the operators to abuse the privacy of users so long as the NSA got the results they wanted.

Snowden has shown how the NSA's policy can backfire spectacularly.

The folks who designed the weak system and enabled the abuse of privacy are the real criminals. But they won't be punished.

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So much for the NSA's audit of the surveillance system's users
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sat, 24 Aug 13 11:12 PM 		Msg. 14503 of 54959

"The government's forensic investigation is wrestling with Snowden's apparent ability to defeat safeguards established to monitor and deter people looking at information without proper permission, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the sensitive developments publicly.

The disclosure undermines the Obama administration's assurances to Congress and the public that the NSA surveillance programs can't be abused because its spying systems are so aggressively monitored and audited for oversight purposes: If Snowden could defeat the NSA's own tripwires and internal burglar alarms, how many other employees or contractors could do the same?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/24/edward-snowden-electronic-tracks_n_3809491.html

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