In today's world, all one can really hope for is to keep the full functionality/capability from leaking before a system goes operational. The American People are far more in the dark than our enemies are.
In today’s world, all one can really hope for is to keep the full functionality/capability from leaking before a system goes operational. The American People are far more in the dark than our enemies are.
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How true. The clock starts ticking once the operational capabilities of our systems become known to our enemies. That knowledge cannot be supressed indefinitely but good security practices can push that date far to the right. Good security pays big dividends.
In today’s State Department and for past twenty years, a foreigner can marry a US Department of State employee overseas and become a “Communicator”; they are accepted as foreign service specialists and given the crypto keys, management of long haul communications and even privy to the identities of our agency personnel at their mission, and insight into how to identify covert operatives. Worst though is that many hate the USA - and I doubt their alligence. It has long been my belief that it is policy’s like diversity and family member hiring preferences that make this situation a reality. Can you imagine granting a Top Secret clearance to someone just a few years removed from their homeland into a position where they handle all US Communications at an Embassy or Consulate? It may be possible due to the compartmentalization of information that the US uses these people to LEAK information which we want them to see. It is just unreal that in the 70s and 80s I would have lost my security clearance for marrying a South Korea (Ally?), but today we make it a matter of National Policy to hand the “keys” to Turks, former USSR soldiers, etc.
I was at San Vito Air Station too, 62-63. It was the 6917th RGM (USAFSS) then. We had the locals convinced that the FLR-9 was used to refuel submarines.