Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption

Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by ethbr1 on Friday October 13, 2023 @12:09PM (#37872144)

I'd say the haphazard destruction of Blackberries and iPads with hammers is pretty explicit evidence of how bad State Dept IT policy and execution was.

Maybe I've worked in large corporations too much, but my first question when I see policy violations is not "How is this person conspiring?" but rather "What made following the official policy difficult? And how can we fix that?"

Also, the State Dept seems like exactly the sort of place policy violations become culturally routine: non-technical experts, doing work that is arguably "more important", with IT seen as a cost rather than profit center.

Perfect storm for policy-in-name-only.

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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by willcipriano on Friday October 13, 2023 @01:42PM (#37873341)

She must've been unaware of her legal requirements under FOIA, that her husband signed into law, when she ordered the people's emails destroyed.

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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by ethbr1 on Friday October 13, 2023 @04:41PM (#37875403)

Or, she didn't even think about records retention or device security, in the same way that most politicians/executives don't, assuming it was handled by someone.

And it was in fact not, because there was no functioning policy enforcement at State.

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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by willcipriano on Saturday October 14, 2023 @09:02AM (#37880150)

> there was no functioning policy enforcement at State

I agree, the laws were not enforced in this case.

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