NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses"

Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by simoncion on Monday December 16, 2013 @03:12PM (#6917470)

Aye. Would one think that the computer security guys at the NSA are unaware of the vast body of literature on social engineering? ;) (I don't think that you do, it's a rhetorical question.)

I suspect that it's very likely that the NSA fucked up, big-time when they designed their internal security and auditing system. With the system in the state that it must have been, would they even know if an agent from $ENEMY_COUNTRY_OF_THE_MONTH had siphoned off sensitive data, shipped it back home, and vanished into the night?

I mean, the only way we became aware of this leak was the Guardian's announcement of it. It kinda feels like the NSA became aware of the situation at about the same time that we did.

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Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by jessaustin on Monday December 16, 2013 @03:57PM (#6917758)

I think we're on the same page here; sorry for misunderstanding before. b^)

If NSA have failed as hard in securing their systems as they seem to have, it makes me think that in the past they've relied on the vetting process to screen out decent Americans like Snowden. I don't think that's enough to keep out determined nations with cosmopolitan citizens, so it's a good bet that Snowden was preceded, and will be followed, by spies of all stripes. If we don't really need an NSA capable of keeping secrets, we probably don't need an NSA at all.

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