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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNSA Complains That It Has To Spend Time Closing Leaks Rather Than Spying On Everyone
NSA Complains That It Has To Spend Time Closing Leaks Rather Than Spying On EveryoneNPR has a slightly bizarre article claiming that the effects of the Snowden leaks "aren't what he intended." Except the article doesn't really suggest that at all. It does focus on how the NSA is now spending a ton of time trying to figure out how to prevent future leaks, but that's to be expected. It also talks about how the NSA needs to focus on that rather than on spying on everyone with a hint of "and you might all die because we can't do our jobs" added in for flavor.
Another effect of Snowden's disclosures on NSA operations has been that agency leaders have chosen to expedite planned security reforms, as part of an effort to prevent future leaks. The agency has begun consolidating databases, moving them from separate repositories into large data centers where cloud analysis can be employed. The data are to be "tagged" with restrictions so that analysts not qualified or authorized to review the information will not be able to access it.
"We've had to do things that we had planned to do over the next three or four years and move them dramatically to the left," says the NSA's chief information officer, Lonny Anderson. "We haven't asked for additional resources. We've just said, 'We've got to do this.' So something gives, because we're not getting additional resources. And what gives, for us, is mission."
The NSA mission is intelligence gathering.
"We have to make sure we don't cross a line where we're so busy locking down the networks that we're not defending the nation," Anderson says. "That's the fine line we walk."
"We've had to do things that we had planned to do over the next three or four years and move them dramatically to the left," says the NSA's chief information officer, Lonny Anderson. "We haven't asked for additional resources. We've just said, 'We've got to do this.' So something gives, because we're not getting additional resources. And what gives, for us, is mission."
The NSA mission is intelligence gathering.
"We have to make sure we don't cross a line where we're so busy locking down the networks that we're not defending the nation," Anderson says. "That's the fine line we walk."
the rest:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130923/00532524616/nsa-complains-that-it-has-to-spend-time-closing-leaks-rather-than-spying-everyone.shtml
http://wfae.org/post/effects-snowden-leaks-arent-what-he-intended?utm_referrer=http%3A//m.wfae.org/%3Futm_referrer%3D%23mobile/35746
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NSA Complains That It Has To Spend Time Closing Leaks Rather Than Spying On Everyone (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2013
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Coyotl
(15,262 posts)2. Leaks will happen when what they do is an offense to basic rights.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)3. But they did cross a line...
Perhaps they should have spent some time making sure they didn't cross a line in violation of the 4th Amendment.
RC
(25,592 posts)4. Maybe if what the NSA was doing was above board, there would be no need for damage control for leaks
That right there is a dead giveaway that what they are they are doing is not really legal or ethical.