I read an article today that claims one and a half million people have a Top Secret clearance.
That kind of demonstrates how little Top Secret now means. On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > * John Gilmore: > > > [John here. Let's try some speculation about what this phrase, > > "fabricating digital keys", might mean.] > > Most likely, as part of his job at the contractor, he had > administrator access to a system which was used for key management, > perhaps to apply security updates, manage backups or fix the > occasional glitch. This is precisely the kind of low-level grunt work > that I expect is outsourced to contractors. > > It's also possible that he was directly charged with key management. > I can image that someone thought that as long as some agency committee > made the actual decisions, it was fine to hire an external data typist > who entered the committee decision in to the key management system. > > It's really funny that "NSA-level security" has now turned pejorative. > _______________________________________________ > The cryptography mailing list > cryptography@metzdowd.com > http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/
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