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    From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Bob Ackley on Fri Dec 3 17:00:49 2010

    Back when I handled classified material = and I handled a LOT of it
    over a period just shy of 20 years (evern wrote some of it) - your
    access to material was limited by your need to know it. If you
    didn't need it you just didn't get access to it, period.

    in this case, we can thank 9-11 for it... there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth about not sharing information between the services so that the information could be seen in a much larger picture and possibly prevent another 9-11 from happening...

    when they allowed the services access to more information, they evidently did not think to assign levels of access to the data in the database and thus this PFC analysist had access to a lot of information that he probably should not have had access to...

    even more telling is that he actually downloaded the information to a device which should have been locked out or access removed on that/those machines... that he gathered this information with the obvious intent to disseminate it elsewhere is also greatly telling... now one must determine why this PFC did this... was $$$ the incentive or was it something else??

    )\/(ark


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  • From Richard Webb@1:116/901 to mark lewis on Sat Dec 4 00:39:57 2010
    HI Mark,

    On Fri 2038-Dec-03 17:00, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Bob Ackley:

    Back when I handled classified material = and I handled a LOT of it
    over a period just shy of 20 years (evern wrote some of it) - your
    access to material was limited by your need to know it. If you
    didn't need it you just didn't get access to it, period.

    in this case, we can thank 9-11 for it... there was a great wailing
    and gnashing of teeth about not sharing information between the
    services so that the information could be seen in a much larger
    picture and possibly prevent another 9-11 from happening...

    YOu know it's funny, I just sent back to the braille library today the 7th volume of the joint congressional committees'
    report on that whole mess, and you're right.

    The joint committees' recommendations were to share info
    better in such databases, but to provide those "levels" of
    access, and a clear audit trail of who accessed it when,
    where it went, etc.

    Again, sounds like some people are screwing up pretty major.


    YEp I can see this guy downloading this stuff onto a usb
    hard drive and walking out the door. Nobody says "hey bro
    whatcha got in the bag there" or anything like it.

    Scary stuff!!!

    Regards,
    Richard
    --- timEd 1.10.y2k+
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