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Posted on 08/08/2013 10:41:56 PM PDT by gandalftb
The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information.
Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, the U.S. spy agency charged with monitoring foreign electronic communications, told a cybersecurity conference in New York City that automating much of the work would improve security.
"What we're in the process of doing - not fast enough - is reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent," he said.
The remarks came as the agency is facing scrutiny after Snowden, who had been one of about 1,000 system administrators who help run the agency's networks, leaked classified details about surveillance programs to the press.
Before the change, "what we've done is we've put people in the loop of transferring data, securing networks and doing things that machines are probably better at doing," Alexander said.
Using technology to automate much of the work now done by employees and contractors would make the NSA's networks "more defensible and more secure," as well as faster, he said at the conference, in which he did not mention Snowden by name.
These efforts pre-date Snowden's leaks, the agency has said, but have since been accelerated.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
They’re “removing 90% of the SysAdmins?”
In other words, they’re relocating them to a secure facility to join the thousands of analysts they’re hiring to pore over our emails and social media posts all day.
That’s why every email I send contains a footer that says “BOJINKA ECHELON PRISM” followed by Soetoro’s stolen Connecticut SSN starting with ‘042’ the prefix for CT SSN’s.
Sometimes I even attach a photo of his mother’s B&W porno pics from the 1960’s.
“Unless you work for the Government you have no inside information and if you did you sure wouldn’t be posting it on the Internet.”
Really, ya ever heard of Tony Snow? Oops, he was gone before you joined FR.
FR is full of neener-neeners that can only say versions of some internet anonymous heckling and add nothing of substance to our online debates. Do some research, add to the converstion.
My speculation has added just as much to this thread as your speculation :^)
Hardly a neener-neener. First time I’ve ever been called that. Thanks, I think...
Now to quote the great Philosopher Rodney King, ‘Can’t we all just get along’.
BUMP!
Let the law suit/s begin.
Wrongful firing anyone?
Shell game BS.
These people would be reassigned, not fired. They know too much, especially now.
Maybe Obowel will give them new names and assign them to his gun running network.
Exactly
I’m more concerned with the shredding of the constitution.
“how ‘bout putting a travel hold on every employee and sub from leaving the US without permission???”
Is it just certain Americans who need govt permission to travel? I mean think how secure it would be if everyone had to have travel permits!
Heck we could be more secure then Stalins Russia.
That is what they are TELLING us. We have no way of knowing what they are doing. It is obvious they, Congress & POTUS have been lying to us for years. They are doing far more than they are allowed. Obama “fires” people all the time. Then we find out they never left.
We are way past the point of being able to trust anything out of our government. The only reasonable approach is to assume that whatever any politician or government spokesman is saying, or government report or statistic or finding, is a complete lie.
Laws are no longer laws and words no longer mean anything. There will be revolution.
Obama told us he was outraged by the IRS targeting Tea Party groups, but --surprise!-- the targeting has continued.
The only upside to this, is that it will likely make the NSA less able to handily spy on US citizens without adequate legal reason.
Skynet
there will be plenty of “system administrator” jobs created by obamacare, these employees can just be transferred to other agencies to manage your health records with the same skill they managed our national security
LOL! You baaad
"Open the Tea Party File, Hal".
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".
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