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Protecting classified information - iron clad
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by YankeeJim | October 23, 2010 at 06:32 am
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The US Government and its departments and agencies are responsible for protecting classified information. The Wiki leak situation should not have happened and could not have happened if proper security had been in place.
Proper security includes both 1) people and 2) technology assurances.
In my book, Smart Data, Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy, ©2010 Wiley Publishing, Dr. Jim Rodger and I describe a technique for assuring that only people with the correct credentials and privileges should be able to access information. This is made fool proof by a combination of biometrics, credentialing and privileging attributes the combination of which are impenetrable.
There are no excuses for intelligence and classified information leaks as iron clad solutions are readily available. The problem comes from human mismanagement from top down.
http://books.google.com/books?id=4g2tcm3BfGcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=smart+data+enterprise+performance+optimization+strategy&source=bl&ots=yv9AJPB4w8&sig=6k_MEVODMUOm8PRdRNLge2l80WI&hl=en&ei=evHCTI7fM8OAlAfI_PjSCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
“WikiLeaks website publishes classified military documents from Iraq By the CNN Wire Staff October 23, 2010 1:09 a.m. EDT Washington (CNN) -- The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks published nearly 400,000 classified military documents from the Iraq war on Friday, calling it the largest classified military leak in history. The latest round of leaked documents provides a new picture of how many Iraqi civilians have been killed, a new window on the role that Iran has played in supporting Iraqi militants and many accounts of abuse by Iraqi's army and police, according to The New York Times. The Times was one of a handful of news organizations that was provided early access to the papers. According to new documents, the vast majority of slain civilians were killed by other Iraqis. The U.S. military is notifying Iraqis named in the documents, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told CNN. "There are 300 names of Iraqis in here that we think would be particularly endangered by their exposure," he said. "We have passed that information on to U.S. Forces Iraq. They are in the process right now of contacting those Iraqis to try to safeguard them."”
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at 07:30 on October 23rd, 2010
Get a grip. There are too many leaks. Where is the DOD CIO!
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"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)at 09:55 on October 23rd, 2010
Politics trumps security leaks. Information leaks are always traced to a political agenda. Wiki-leaks is no different. Julian Assange -" Wikileaks promises their sources that they will "try and get the maximum possible political impact for the material they give us." Julian Assange justifies Wiki-leaks refusal to discuss its personnel, operations or security methods by saying that he has a “duty” to maintain “institutional integrity”. Exactly what he denies and exploits in his search for and release of sensitive material related to the national security of the US, Afghanistan and Iraq.
at 11:16 on October 23rd, 2010
The fact is such information should be impossible to leak and that is possible.
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"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)at 11:42 on October 23rd, 2010
It is impossible to secure anything from those who will trade their access for a dollar or political idealism.
at 14:34 on October 23rd, 2010
The combination of electronic privileging combined biometrics presents combinations that are impossible to replicate. Even if one wanted to "give away" access to information, they would be caught immediately.
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InfoLeaks1 (not verified)at 11:19 on October 23rd, 2010
What I would really like to see leaked is the actual murders of the JFK, RFK, MLK, and other political assassinations. This Afghan war leak information is small potato's really since much of the information had already been considered.
Our most important leaks have been our national nuclear secrets and rocket development technology that the Chinese got ahold of on several occassions in the last fifteen years. Not to mention several serious CIA and DOD missteps of information leaks over the years. 1
at 11:36 on October 23rd, 2010
There is plenty of room for suspicion in those cases.
at 11:26 on October 23rd, 2010
Too many leaks, loose lips sink ships.
at 11:28 on October 23rd, 2010
If the government is capable of gathering information on its citizenry without consent, what is to stop the citizenry from "pushing back"? Some people have a political agenda, some have a conscience. (Think Daniel Ellsberg.)
at 11:38 on October 23rd, 2010
Ellsberg is a hero -- heroic as a Marine and heroic in changing his mind that affected US policy in a very bad way. His ideas got us deeper into Vietnam. His concscience helped end the war.
at 11:41 on October 23rd, 2010
Compare and contrast: Dan Ellsberg, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.