On 8/17/13 2:37 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
I loved the defense offered in
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/us/nsa-calls-violations-of-privacy-minuscule.html, that
2776 mistakes in a year were nothing to get excited over, they're
making 20 million queries a month. I wonder when we were going to
find out that number in the normal course of events.
It probably measures something. Like the number of middle managers
that they have with a conscience. If as a group they perceive risk as
inaction, it could be a small fraction of the actual violations. Someone
had the presence of mind to realize that they needed to have some plots
on some sort of violation, so that it would seem like they were doing
something proactive about an obvious risk when a trouble-making Senator
came along, etc.
Marcus
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