[liberationtech] FW: [Dewayne-Net] NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access

[michael gurstein]

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[Note:  This item comes from reader Randall Head.  DLH]

From: RVH <rvhead40 at gmail.com>
Subject: Yeah, that might work. 
Date: August 8, 2013 9:28:39 PM PDT
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NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access By
Jonathan Allen Aug 8 2013
<http://preview.reuters.com/2013/8/9/nsa-to-cut-system-administrators-by-90-
percent-to>

The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by
former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate
about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people
with access to secret information.

Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, the U.S. spy agency charged with
monitoring foreign electronic communications, told a cybersecurity
conference in New York City that automating much of the work would improve
security.

"What we're in the process of doing - not fast enough - is reducing our
system administrators by about 90 percent," he said.

The remarks came as the agency is facing scrutiny after Snowden, who had
been one of about 1,000 system administrators who help run the agency's
networks, leaked classified details about surveillance programs to the
press.

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