Posted on 06/09/2013 8:03:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bradley Manning proved that massive amounts of the government's most secret data was vulnerable to being dumped on the open Internet. A single individual achieved that unprecedented leak. According to the Washington Post, "An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances." And this week, we learned that the FBI, CIA and NSA were unable to protect some of their most closely held secrets from Glenn Greenwald, Richard Engel, Robert Windrem, Barton Gellman, and Laura Poitras. Those journalists, talented as they are, possess somewhat fewer resources than foreign governments! So I naturally started to think about all the data the NSA is storing.
In the wrong hands, it could enable blackmail on a massive scale, widespread manipulation of U.S. politics, industrial espionage against American businesses;,and other mischief I can't even imagine.
The plan is apparently to store the data indefinitely, just in case the government needs it for future investigations. Don't worry, national security officials tell us, we won't ever look at most of it.
Do you trust the government to keep it secure, forever, if others try to look?
If so, why?
Here are 5 terrifying scenarios:
1) China manages to get the NSA data.
2) Russia manages to get the NSA data. (It isn't like they never succeeded in placing spies in our government before.)
3) Pakistan manages to get the NSA data. (They pulled off stealing the West's nuclear secrets.)
4) Iran manages to get the NSA data.
5) Saudi Arabia manages to get the NSA data.
Of course, it could be a non-state actor that gets ahold of the data too. Perhaps a successor to Al Qaeda.
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Let’s rephrase that:
How long has China had access to NSA’s treasure trove.
There now, that wasn’t difficult was it?
Oh, I’m sure they already did. We are so profoundly screwed...
I think Benghazi Barry willingly supplied the info.
Not sure that China having the data is much worse than the Obama regime having it.
If Private Manning had been in military intelligence when I was, he’d have been out of the Army like sh*t thru a goose, guaranteed. I had a room-mate lecture me at the end of my bed while I was sleeping at Fort Hood. Once I woke up and saw what he was up to I dragged him down to the company commander and he was never seen again.
What difference at this point does it make anyway? At least that’s the former secstate thinks.
I do not think its and issue at all, obama will just give it to them.
They don’t need to. The government seems to buy a lot of data from private companies, so they could have plausible denyability that they weren’t doing it. All the Chinese have to do is buy the data from the same companies.
That's probably the plan.
There we go.
He gave up information on our ally, Israel.
If it is detrimental to the US, he is in!
So tell me again who I should be more worried about.
That’s why they bought Smithfield. They figured out we love bacon!
Seriously, given our governments ability to keep China from hacking it, the odds are that China has long since had this information. And they may well have gotten information that they can blackmail our leaders with.
Not sure that China having the data is much worse than the Obama regime having it.
Just international Communist solidarity at work! /s;)
I would only be concerned about that if the NSA whistleblower sought asylum in Hong Kong or someplace like that. I’m sure all our data is quite safe from the PRC?
“I had a room-mate lecture me at the end of my bed while I was sleeping at Fort Hood.”
He was talking to you while you slept? Huh?
Geez, and, no doubt, the Chinese will get our medical records stored by the IRS too? There goes all our HIPPA-protected information? What a joke, ya think?
What If China Hacks the NSA's Massive Data Trove AGAIN?
Yes, he was crazy. High IQ sometimes means mental issues. Our career field required at least a 110 GT score.
I’m not as worried about the Chinese having my data as I am the U.S. government.
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