What NSA Is Doing to Improve Security Post-Snowden

Alfie John alfiej at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 5 03:24:05 PST 2014


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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