"The NSA Will Replace Most of Their Potential Snowdens With Machines" (In the Thin Cloud)
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>The NSA will eliminate 90 percent of the system administrators who maintain the agency's networks, according to the agency's director Keith Alexander. Speaking on Thursday to a cybersecurity conference, the NSA chief said that most of the current work done by staff and contractor system administrators — Snowden's old job — could be replicated by automated technology.
> "We’ve put people in the loop of transferring data, securing networks and doing things that machines are probably better at doing,” Alexander said according to Reuters, adding, "What we're in the process of doing - not fast enough - is reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent." The change, he argues, will make their networks more secure, more defensible, and faster. According to Alexander, the agency started down that path before Snowden's leaks, but have made it a higher priority in recent months.
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> System administrations are already under tighter scrutiny at the agency, with new restrictions in place on the use of thumb drives (which is presumably how Snowden snagged the documents he leaked), and a mandatory "buddy system" when one administrator needs to access sensitive data.
The NSA will eliminate 90 percent of the system administrators who maintain the agency's networks, according to the agency's director Keith Alexander. Speaking on Thursday to a cybersecurity conference, the NSA chief said that most of the current work done by staff and contractor system administrators — Snowden's old job — could be replicated by automated technology.
"We’ve put people in the loop of transferring data, securing networks and doing things that machines are probably better at doing,” Alexander said according to Reuters, adding, "What we're in the process of doing - not fast enough - is reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent." The change, he argues, will make their networks more secure, more defensible, and faster.
More and about the "Thin Cloud Replacement" at:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/nsa-will-replace-most-their-potential-snowdens-machines/68153/
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fight, especially now that Snowden has shown the way!
Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
Edward Snowden's Dad Calls Him 'Modern Day Paul Revere'
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/edward-snowdens-dad-calls-modern-day-paul-revere/story?id=19554337
Hmmm... who knew how influential a DU meme could be 
or Teenagers . . .
Fail-Safe
And, Colossus, The Forbin Project
And, Open the Pod Bay Doors, Hal . . .
I think these days it's probably programmed in..that they will have to obey Dave... It's gotten that bad...
Dateline 2027, in a outsourced intel. analysis cluster in Utah, process id 29399, the ranking http-analysis-agent logs the following message "NOT IN MY NAME"
It is shut down within milliseconds by the load balancer due to lack of response on it's main request threads.