Inside NSA's Efforts To Hunt Sysadmins 147
An anonymous reader writes "The Snowden revelations continue, with The Intercept releasing an NSA document titled 'I hunt sys admins' (PDF on Cryptome). The document details NSA plans to break into systems administrators' computers in order to gain access to the networks they control. The Intercept has a detailed analysis of the leaked document. Quoting: 'The classified posts reveal how the NSA official aspired to create a database that would function as an international hit list of sys admins to potentially target. Yet the document makes clear that the admins are not suspected of any criminal activity – they are targeted only because they control access to networks the agency wants to infiltrate. "Who better to target than the person that already has the ‘keys to the kingdom’?" one of the posts says.'"
Hide in plain sight (Score:5, Funny)
A limerick (Score:5, Funny)
Whose ________ was so _______ he could ________.
He said with a _________ as he wiped off his __________,
"If my __________ was a _________ I would __________ it."
Re:Hide in plain sight (Score:5, Funny)
If only you could pass those damned astro-navs....
Re:This has gone beyond madness (Score:5, Funny)
Since all the 'extraordinary rendition' bag, drag, and torture kids at the CIA are still running around in arrogant impunity, going so far as to just yoink inconvenient documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee(seriously, most of the members of that are appeasnik fuckwits who basically worship the clandestine services, so it must be really, really bad if the CIA is embarrassed in front of them. Also, if there are things the clandestine services do that even that part of the senate isn't allowed to know about, can we really maintain the pretense that civilian government is actually in anything resembling control?) how about pitting two problems against one another?
It'll be an exciting contest, like a reality TV show; but with higher stakes, rules as follows:
The NSA will be the intelligence-spooks team: their job is to dig up as much dirt on the CIA as possible, by whatever l33t haxx0ring necessary, and try to have the CIA neutralized by political and/or public outrage, at least to the point of organizational collapse, to the point of wholesale hangings-from-the-lampposts for bonus points.
The CIA will be the wet-ops creeps team: they will have to 'disappear' key NSA personnel to our worldwide network of extralegal torture dungeons fast enough to keep the lid on their dirty laundry, and try to drive the NSA to the point of institutional paralysis or collapse, with extra points awarded for any actually-true facts obtained during the 'enhanced interrogation' sessions.
Gentlemen, to the starting line, and may you both lose!
Re:Perhaps it is rather time..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This has gone beyond madness (Score:4, Funny)
"I veto your voting us out!" "You can't do that, you've been voted out so you therefore have no veto." "But the vote is vetoed, so we weren't voted out!" "..." "..."
oh, you think sigint is your ally. (Score:5, Funny)
The login prompts betray you, because they belong to me.
so give it your best, young man. I and my greybeards are forged in this art. We know that behind your presentation, your boldface scrawlings and your bemused predatory preamble that we have coffee ringed RFC's that have seen more fervent attempts than yours. Save yourself some grief and maybe curry our favour. target our PHB instead.
Re:Hide in plain sight (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This has gone beyond madness (Score:4, Funny)
"OK, Private, you know the enemy uses US civilians as human shields, and that's when we use the .50 caliber to make sure the bullet goes through the US civilian in order to get the terrist hiding behind him!"
"But I don't see anyone hiding behind any of those civilians!"
"They can be tricky. Start shootin' anyway."