https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/nsa_increasing.html
> NSA Increasing Security by Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins > > General Keith Alexander thinks he can improve security by automating sysadmin > duties such that 90% of them can be fired: > > 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. > Does anyone know a sysadmin anywhere who believes it's possible to automate > 90% of his job? Or who thinks any such automation will actually improve > security? > > He's stuck. Computerized systems require trusted people to administer them. > And any agency with all that computing power is going to need thousands of > sysadmins. Some of them are going to be whistleblowers. > > Leaking secret information is the civil disobedience of our age. Alexander > has to get used to it. -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
