> The National Security Agency (NSA) is the font of information security wisdom for the US defense and intelligence communities. But apparently, the NSA's own network security is so weak that a single administrator was able to hijack the credentials of a number of NSA employees with high-level security clearances and use them to download data from the agency's internal networks.
Thats a bit hyperbolic and out of touch with reality. Sure I as a sysadmin with root to most UNIX machines in my companies environment could have been able to copy the raw Oracle db files to steal company secrets, SAP databases for other juicy data that I could sell to a competitor, run a network sniffer on important login servers to steal passwords, that is how the real world works. If anyone believes that you can totally lock down access to every system on your network from your trusted sysadmins and have 100% audibility and accountability you are unfortunately living in a fantasy land. NSA or not, this really isn't something that is 100% preventable.
Thats a bit hyperbolic and out of touch with reality. Sure I as a sysadmin with root to most UNIX machines in my companies environment could have been able to copy the raw Oracle db files to steal company secrets, SAP databases for other juicy data that I could sell to a competitor, run a network sniffer on important login servers to steal passwords, that is how the real world works. If anyone believes that you can totally lock down access to every system on your network from your trusted sysadmins and have 100% audibility and accountability you are unfortunately living in a fantasy land. NSA or not, this really isn't something that is 100% preventable.