[LINK] Worthwhile read: "The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye"

[Glen Turner]

Hi folks,

This article is worth the read for two reasons.

Firstly, for its excellent summary of the current state of Linux system security.

Secondly, for its faith that the Snowden leaks could have been prevented by technical measures alone when they were motivated by social and organisation reasons. The NSA would have more effectively prevented the Snowden leaks by not subverting its own mission, motivating those who joined the institution to further that mission to alert the public to what they saw as a betrayal by the NSA.

Toxen, Bob.
"The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye"
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/5/174340-the-nsa-and-snowden/fulltext
Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Vol 57, Num 5. May 2014.

Communications of the ACM is the member magazine of the Association of Computing Machinery. It is well worth a browse.
http://cacm.acm.org/

Similarly worthwhile is the equivalent IEEE Spectrum.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/magazine

The "Information Age" magazine of the Australian Computer Society is paywalled.
http://www.acs.org.au/information-resources/publications/information-age

Regards, glen

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 Glen Turner <https://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/>