[Info-vax] Bradley Manning and OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Very good article from a 14 hour interview with Edward Snowden by
Washington Post:

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html

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Snowden recounted another set of conversations that he said took place
three years earlier, when he was sent by the NSA’s Technology
Directorate to support operations at a listening post in Japan. As a
system administrator, he had full access to security and auditing
controls. He said he saw serious flaws with information security.

“I actually recommended they move to two-man control for administrative
access back in 2009,” he said, first to his supervisor in Japan and then
to the directorate’s chief of operations in the Pacific. “Sure, a
whistleblower could use these things, but so could a spy.”

That precaution, which requires a second set of credentials to perform
risky operations such as copying files onto a removable drive, has been
among the principal security responses to the Snowden affair.

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Now, imagine if HP had paid Snowden to promote VMS as a secure system
that the NSA has a hard time breaking into :-)