[LINK] Schneier: NSA thinks it can increase Security by Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins

[Kim Holburn]

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/nsa_increasing.html

> NSA Increasing Security by Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins
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> General Keith Alexander thinks he can improve security by automating sysadmin duties such that 90% of them can be fired:
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> Using technology to automate much of the work now done by employees and contractors would make the NSA's networks "more defensible and more secure," as well as faster, he said at the conference, in which he did not mention Snowden by name.
> Does anyone know a sysadmin anywhere who believes it's possible to automate 90% of his job? Or who thinks any such automation will actually improve security?
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> He's stuck. Computerized systems require trusted people to administer them. And any agency with all that computing power is going to need thousands of sysadmins. Some of them are going to be whistleblowers.
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> Leaking secret information is the civil disobedience of our age. Alexander has to get used to it.



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