PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Fri Jun 7 16:10:57 UTC 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Seiden" <mis at seiden.com>
> but the ability to assemble intelligence out of taps on providers'
> internal connections
> would require reverse engineering the ever changing protocols of all
> of those providers.
> and at least at one of the providers named, where i worked on security
> and abuse,
> it was hard for us, ourselves, to quickly mash up data from various
> internal services
> and lines of business that were almost completely siloed --
> data typically wasn't exposed widely and stayed within a particular
> server or data center absent a logged in session by the user.
Jamie makes an excellent point here: Least Privilege should apply within
carrier's cores and data centers, just as much as within corporate and
organizational ones.
Cheers,
-- jra
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