Hundreds of disgruntled, unemployed and very bored hackers. What could possibly go wrong?
Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the NSA’s director, told a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University in New York last week that almost the agency’s entire crew of systems administrators is being cut.
“What we’re in the process of doing – not fast enough – is reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent,” he said in remarks earlier reported by Reuters.
Many of those systems administrators are contractors, like Snowden was before he fled the United States and Booz Allen Hamilton fired him. Instead of the 1,000 systems administrators NSA uses, Alexander wants to move more of the operation to the cyber cloud, called the Intelligence Community’s Information Technology Enterprise (ICITE),which relies on a network of computers linked on the Internet.
(via Ashby)