[166717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: latest Snowden docs show NSA intercepts all Google and Yahoo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Tue Nov 5 18:50:50 2013
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:50:06 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <260897.1383527095@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>> How do you intend to *find* the agents
>>> who were hired at a government agency's under-the-table request that
>>> never had a written record that the company had access to?
>>
>> By memories of those who are at the table.
>
> So one of the two people at the table you don't have a name for because
> they're not an employee, and the other is either an NSA plant lying about
> never being at a table, or you just gave your top network troubleshooter
> a damned good reason to update their resume.
>
> Hint: This isn't a children's game of hide and seek, and if there *is*
> an NSA plant they're not going to just smile and say "Oh, you found me".
Hint: I'm not talking about a way to have perfect security. I'm talking
about possible/good/recommended approach to improve the security without
witch hunting.
> Good job at flushing out those NSA guys. Now who are you going to
> hire to replace them, and your top troubleshooter?
Feel free to hunt witches if you think it necessary.
Masataka Ohta
