What NSA Is Doing to Improve Security Post-Snowden

[George W. Maschke]

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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-targeted-by-the-nsa/

George Maschke
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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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