What NSA Is Doing to Improve Security Post-Snowden
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 NSA Director Mike Rogers spoke at Stanford University's Hoover Institute this past weekend, and a faculty member asked him what the NSA is doing with regards to personnel security to stop another incident like Edward Snowden's release of classified documents. Interestingly, the first and primary measure that the NSA director mentioned was polygraph testing. It's interesting because polygraphy is a thoroughly discredited pseuodoscience. It depends on the person being "tested" being ignorant of the trickery on which the procedure relies. How ironic that America's most technologically sophisticated intelligence agency relies on early 20th century pseudoscience as the keystone of its personnel security program. For additional commentary, see "NSA Director Mike Rogers on Polygraph Screening" on the AntiPolygraph.org blog: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2014/11/04/nsa-director-mike-rogers-on-polygr... George Maschke PGP Public Key: 316A947C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUWf25AAoJEEYqwKuPDNWqPMgP/3QDCJH5epob6MKlYYTAH30A gYQBfIkIa93Wufhmt+Od2zlbQSxkshEnD/mNnujqih/bybrvj+OSLR2ejCwzoaL1 PMoR07E1kJRjKw0wEIbxnf0SLVGJedOHhUsu6/WUJ9DWYZ7mCiSyVgH+AOIhaQDy SUFoi9Nl3dZvUBN8FqRPeL4tHp0LG6QIV3N0pZZddOw68qIeI53HQ8Rv14VAFgix oAIzHJ77Y+0gcyp1WIxFyopVfnioezf15YVSl3hC0z+m1V/lRFUullHJWWbG4nm9 xenuqWwVF5T6wj4Lstep5seKBoKobr1+haGPkVfggNcfOMAY4PCjolzmA4j8yOci Sn8vx7U1eVGAwdPkppT33ug+GWzj5yXMVCjH95U+JyO6My4cY97YOhtQe5fUn0ep vhbPMRy+Q1lvtRYd9lZI/ZLRVOUp1652IqjhgCmIMCCR3ZtSPWq3RQmreepf6XgA tCU2u6SkpgK7N2+NvMMFe+lrcBUIxO6MTBW61xl6CHmw3WIsPTUfstwGwcUkm2Im jjnQuLNqE+IMEsaZ0202r9791DnohXOtbg7epGSayk35oBA4xvCZm0/A4vStgCSO Dt8jSht5ULJZJ1jqnSkkAzfXrKHxlCFRlRkrNWn7qcTKGm2Iza0DCA5513cU80xj AD3rPiQBA0/r6N78GYaY =9xb+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
have you considered he is targeting to a less educated audience?
On Nov 5, 2014, at 5:36 AM, "George W. Maschke" <georgemaschke@posteo.de> wrote:
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NSA Director Mike Rogers spoke at Stanford University's Hoover Institute this past weekend, and a faculty member asked him what the NSA is doing with regards to personnel security to stop another incident like Edward Snowden's release of classified documents.
Interestingly, the first and primary measure that the NSA director mentioned was polygraph testing. It's interesting because polygraphy is a thoroughly discredited pseuodoscience. It depends on the person being "tested" being ignorant of the trickery on which the procedure relies.
How ironic that America's most technologically sophisticated intelligence agency relies on early 20th century pseudoscience as the keystone of its personnel security program.
For additional commentary, see "NSA Director Mike Rogers on Polygraph Screening" on the AntiPolygraph.org blog:
https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2014/11/04/nsa-director-mike-rogers-on-polygr...
George Maschke PGP Public Key: 316A947C
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 09:36 PM, George W. Maschke wrote:
Interestingly, the first and primary measure that the NSA director mentioned was polygraph testing. It's interesting because polygraphy is a thoroughly discredited pseuodoscience. It depends on the person being "tested" being ignorant of the trickery on which the procedure relies.
How ironic that America's most technologically sophisticated intelligence agency relies on early 20th century pseudoscience as the keystone of its personnel security program.
Does that also mean that the CIA are down in Moscow tracking Snowden with Dowsing rods? But seriously folks, think for a second about the levels of paranoia right now at the NSA's HR department. They know that any future applicant could be another Snowden, so what are the chances that these new measures include using PRISM selectors on candidates to look for dirt or even nude selfies^W^WSIGLOVE? Alfie -- Alfie John alfiej@fastmail.fm
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Alfie, The NSA director mentioned other personnel security measures that he wasn't prepared to elaborate on, and I suspect that one of these is indeed the electronic monitoring of personnel. Last year, I heard from a U.S. Navy SIGINTer that when he reported for a recent polygraph, he was presented with a printout of logs detailing his web browsing the night before, on his personal computer using his personal ISP. The polygraph operator confronted him about having visited AntiPolygraph.org and then set about trying to discredit the information we provide. This person said they'd provide further details later in the day, but never wrote back and did not respond to repeated follow-up inquiries: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2013/10/20/is-antipolygraph-org-being-targete... George Maschke PGP Public Key: 316A947C Alfie John:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 09:36 PM, George W. Maschke wrote:
Interestingly, the first and primary measure that the NSA director mentioned was polygraph testing. It's interesting because polygraphy is a thoroughly discredited pseuodoscience. It depends on the person being "tested" being ignorant of the trickery on which the procedure relies.
How ironic that America's most technologically sophisticated intelligence agency relies on early 20th century pseudoscience as the keystone of its personnel security program.
Does that also mean that the CIA are down in Moscow tracking Snowden with Dowsing rods?
But seriously folks, think for a second about the levels of paranoia right now at the NSA's HR department. They know that any future applicant could be another Snowden, so what are the chances that these new measures include using PRISM selectors on candidates to look for dirt or even nude selfies^W^WSIGLOVE?
Alfie
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