Comments on: The Snowden Effect

By: stacib23

stacib23 — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:36:00 +0000

In reply to trgahan. How many people would you guess are now really, really pissed at Snowden?

By: stacib23

stacib23 — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:35:00 +0000

In reply to D_C_Wilson. I know, huh. How will they ever keep up with my Google searches for pressure cookers? :-)

By: D_C_Wilson

D_C_Wilson — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:34:00 +0000

In reply to IrishGrrrl. in fairness, Snowden originally worked directly for the NSA before moving to Booz Allen just a month before becoming the leaker. They probably assumed the NSA had properly vetted him.

By: D_C_Wilson

D_C_Wilson — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:31:00 +0000

Cutting the IT staff makes sense from a leak-control point of view. If you want to keep something secure, reduce the number of people who have access to it. Of course, whether 10 percent can actually handle the work load remains to be seen.

By: trgahan

trgahan — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:21:00 +0000

Seems an awfully strong reaction.
I can only theorize, but I wonder if they discovered that in a rush to meet demand many of those administrators were brought on without sufficient background checks. Upon further checking the NSA found most either would have falled the background or were technically no qualified for the job. So instead of risking very public lawsuits, they just cleaned house under the pretense of changing the system.

By: drspittle

drspittle — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:22:00 +0000

I loved the WAPO article’s reference to NSA scandal that “rocked” the Obama Administration. These laws and institutions have been around for many years. Implication is Obama is responsible for everything that’s happened since Day 1. Yet Snowden’s activities leading up to his “whistleblowing” have never really been covered in the mainstream and his motives never questioned. What’s up with that?

By: pamelabrown53

pamelabrown53 — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:20:00 +0000

In reply to IrishGrrrl. Oops! Try: immasmartypants.blogspot.com. Hope that works!

By: IrishGrrrl

IrishGrrrl — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:09:00 +0000

In reply to pamelabrown53. Hey, I wanted to read the post but the link you posted goes to a company, are you sure that's right?

By: IrishGrrrl

IrishGrrrl — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:05:00 +0000

“Alexander wants to move more of the operation to the cyber cloud, called the Intelligence Community’s Information Technology Enterprise (ICITE),which relies on a network of computers linked on the Internet.”

From an infrastructure and security standpoint, that sounds like a phenomenally bad idea. However, so was using companies like Booz Allen to hire eejits like Snowden.

By: pamelabrown53

pamelabrown53 — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:50:00 +0000

Bob,

I don’t know if this is relevant to your research but I just read an interesting post by @ Smartypants.com. She had a link-“Catherine Fitzgerald”-very tech and hacker heavy-but extremely informative as well as provocative.