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Snowden’s NSA post in Hawaii failed to install “anti-leak” software – Ars Technica

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Russ Roberts

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BBC News Snowden’s NSA post in Hawaii failed to install “anti-leak” software Ars Technica In the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal in 2010, the National Security Agency purchased software from Raytheon to counter a Private Manning-like “insider…

Russell Roberts‘s insight:

Sloppy, sloppy! One can’t blame Snowden for all of the security leaks. His own NSA post in Hawaii failed to install the Raytheon "anti-leak" software when Snowden was assigned to Hawaii. And these are the guys who have permission to monitor all domestic and foreign communications in this country. Things have surely changed since I was in the security business. Aloha, Russ.

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