How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

Re:How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] by timschmidt on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:35PM (#47969715)

I would push back against the idea that intelligence agency behavior changes administration to administration. Looking through history, it's the intelligence agencies which have superior continuity of leadership. Which suggests things about who's directing who.

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Re:How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] by galangalalgol on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:05PM (#47970600)

Bureaucracy in general exhibits that kind of hysteresis. It is like a running average of who has been in charged mixed with a big dose of the culture that people who choose that sort of career create. Ironically, that inertia is considered by political scientists to be a safeguard for democracy.

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Re:How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] by timschmidt on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:12PM (#47970639)

It hits different when the bureaucracy's job is to collect and exploit secrets, and act in the shadows.

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Re:How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] by DANmode on Friday May 01, 2026 @06:48AM (#47973223)

It also “hits different” when you’re the group paying for the bureaucracy.

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