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Re: NSA Internal Identity Management Utterly Hopeless

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 29 Aug 13 10:27 PM | 62 view(s)
Boardmark this board | The Trust Matrix 		Msg. 14531 of 54959
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Wonder how that makes the remaining folks feel.

"You're okay because you're not brilliant!"

"Fire that guy. He's clever."

"We're looking to employ second rather than first or third-rate intellects."

Alternatively, build an organisation that brilliant people want to inhabit. Could be useful. Intelligence, that is.

In my view, the difficulty is that the folks making architectural decisions appear not to be so brilliant. The kinds of folks who get to the top by avoiding upsetting the apple-cart. Or who show no sign of intellectual flexibility, like Michael Hayden.

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NSA Internal Identity Management Utterly Hopeless
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Thu, 29 Aug 13 10:18 PM 		Msg. 14529 of 54959

While working for Booz Allen Hamilton, the technology consulting firm that contracted for the NSA, Snowden reportedly used his access as a system administrator to borrow the electronic identities of officials with higher security clearances via NSAnet, the agency's intranet. Snowden reportedly used the identities obtain 20,000 documents containing information on the agency's controversial programs

"Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was,” an anonymous former intelligence official told NBC. "This is why you don’t hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/edward-snowden-impersonated-nsa_n_3837459.html

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