All NSA personnel have the responsibility to assert the "need-to-know" policy as part of their responsibility to protect sensitive information. Determination of "need-to-know" is a supervisory responsibility. This means that if there is any doubt in your mind as to an individual's "need-to-...
NSA do actually claim to follow it, and people have gotten interesting stuff that way. What we need for the future is an obligation for government agencies to maintain records in a way people will be able to use later. That means no digital formats they’...
I think it is unreasonable at this point in time to believe that we can ever have access to clean hardware, which means that it is unreasonable to believe that private citizens will ever have privacy from government snooping. To think otherwise is a pipe dream at this point. Our only hope...
FORTUNE — Thursday night, after the Guardian broke news of Verizon’s involvement in a massive domestic spying operation by the National Security Agency, the Washington Post and the Guardian both revealed the existence of a program called PRISM— a means by which the government gained access to...
In 1927 George de BothezattoldPopular Sciencethat helicopters were "exactly where the airplane stood after the first few flights of the Wright Brothers." What he means is that helicopters had, indeed, flown. Bothezat himself had built one that lifted off the ground while carrying ...
I worked in SIGINT for 15 years, ten of which were at the NSA primarily in SIGDEV. As you have no idea what that means I will spell it out for you – I was one of the people tasked with acquiring, developing and managing new information sources for the core NSA intelligence programs...