Rather Than Not Spying On Everyone, NSA Is Getting Rid Of 90% Of Its Sysadmins
Found on Techdirt on Saturday, 10 August 2013
The latest NSA plan to stop the next Ed Snowden is to get rid of 90% of their sysadmins and automating many of their jobs.
Considering that sophisticated techies aren't very interested in working for the NSA these days, perhaps it all works out for them.
Also, this more or less confirms what was fairly obvious (due to the NSA leaks by Snowden) that sysadmins have near universal access in the NSA's system.
It's not really the smartest move to anger your entire base of sysadmins by accouncing a cut of 90% to stop another case like Snowden's from happening. Amongst all those admins who will get fired there might be quite a few who, well, "backup" some data, just in case. Hopefully this will result with even more leaks in the future.