[Milsurplus] ( OT ) Deep Security Breach Cripples N.S.A.

[Ray Fantini]

Attacks by the Chinese and Russians are in a sense an industry, but all within the capabilities of any able network administrator to deal with. The real issue is not the technology but the human side. As long as people like Snowden or whatever Chelsea Manning is today are given full security clearances and there supervisors do not exercise oversite that's the problem. It's a classic problem with intelligence, it has to be limited access but if there is no access it's useless.
CWO Walker received over one million dollars in his twenty years as a soviet spy who provided details compromising SOSUS and along with the capture of USS Pueblo by North Korea in 1968 that provided the Soviets both the KL-7 and the KW-37 Cipher systems Walker provided the code cards that allowed the Soviets to read huge amounts of secure and secret traffic in the seventies and eighties.
Walker brought his son Michael Walker, older brother Arthur Walker and Jerry Whitworth into the plot in an effort to establish a spy ring that would still be effective beyond his own retirement from active duty and in the process did way more damage than Snowden or whatever manning is today.
The Human side is always going to be the weakest link in the network.


Ray F/KA3EKH


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Subject: [Milsurplus] ( OT ) Deep Security Breach Cripples N.S.A.

I don't mean to start a discussion here on this subject that is only somewhat connected under the topic of 'electronic warfare'.
But I found this article quite interesting, and - disturbing. Kind of made me think of the spy scandals at MI6 in the U.K. late 1950s.
-Hue

article at New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html


"Fifteen months into a wide-ranging investigation by the agency's counterintelligence arm....officials still do not know whether the N.S.A. is the victim of a brilliantly
executed hack, with Russia as the most likely perpetrator, an insider's leak, or both.  Three employees have been arrested since 2015 for taking classified files, but
there is fear that one or more leakers may still be in place. And there is broad agreement that the damage from Shadow Brokers already far exceeds the harm to
American intelligence done by Edward J. Snowden....
"American officials had to explain to close allies - and to business leaders in the United States - how cyberweapons developed at Fort Meade in Maryland came to
be used against them...."
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