At 9:54 PM -0700 10/11/97, Trei Family wrote:
Classified agencies know this. In the classified world, there is a huge effort to protect data from outside attack. There is a similarly intense effort to check that only loyal, reliable, trustworthy people get clearances, and strong 'need to know' controls to restrict what data even they can see. However, once a cleared person has acheived properly authorized access to classified data, there is (in my observation) remarkably little done to prevent them from deliberately walking off with it.
There's damn little you can do in a free society. KeyKOS provided a facility where you could give information to a program and ensure it could not communicate it elsewhere. However this facility involved running the program in what amounted to solitary confinement. While you can get away to doing this to programs, people are (rightfully) different. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Internal surveillance | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | helped make the USSR the | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | nation it is today. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA