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WRONG:

"Other security measures that Alexander has previously discussed include requiring at least two people to be present before certain data can be accessed on the agency's computer systems."

CORRECT:

Before admins or analysts view native text, a preprocessor regex substitutes innocuous synonym barium canaries for parts of speech, puncuation, possibly with Google capable proper noun recognition, places and people too. These substitution events are hashed with each specific tractable viewers, and the viewers, so informed of this preprocessor, know it, so they don't rat.

This is also `panopticonable', say this occurs only 10% of the time.




None of that helps for someone like Snowden, who prepared to get caught.


Agreed, the rogue suicide in the wild is a problem.

and...with theguardian.com currently:

Breaking news: US orders non-essential staff to leave consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, citing terrorist threat. More details to follow ...

you suppose whatever intercepted intel causing all these embassy closures are `tainted' with `barium' so the threat is scanning NSA's global surveillance to see what activates a hwall alert and what does not? Eg, peaking traffic volume, how to do this with a machine generated sustained random crypto-noise spike?


Oh, that is genius.

But I have problems believing in the existence of conspirators though. Opportunists, yes, but not conspirators. Our species blows at foresight.




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