Re: German intelligence tapped foreign desktops

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Larry Seltzer wrote:
> > > I'm impressed they got compromised to the press badly: activity,
> technology, operations, targets
>
> I would assume this level of compromise is inevitable. It's one of the
> reasons it's a bad idea, at least when used on a large scale.

Things becoming public "happens" by several different routes, but while 
stupidity has been known to happen, such insecurity at an intelligence 
organization iin charge to defend a country iss unbelievable.

Smells like politics.


> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com
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