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Tuesday, 11 June 2013 / Published in Woo on Tech

Is the US Government spying on you?

NSA Busted for spying?

There’s a whole lot of spying going on: the US and China continue to bicker over who’s spying on who, and the Washington Post fumbles an early scoop that clearly confuses what may end up being the biggest information leak since the Wikileaks scandal. In the midst of this surveillance brouhaha, the confidential source that triggered the Washington Post story has stepped forward in the form of an IT security analyst employed by the spookiest of spook agencies, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. Based upon the information this whistleblower has provided to news agencies, the American Civil Liberties Union has brought suit against the president, the NSA and Verizon for illegal spying, and more are on the way.

What this means for you:

Though the details are still being argued over, it appears the NSA has had an ongoing warrant with Verizon that has provided them with calling histories for just about any domestic Verizon customer, all under the umbrella of the controversial Patriot Act. Now, before you start worrying if your recorded phone calls will be leaked and become the next YouTube sensation, the information collected is data-based (numbers, times, geographic locations) as opposed to them eavesdropping in on your conversations, Hollywood “listening post”-style. Given the vast computational power the NSA has at its fingertips, this is still amazingly comprehensive, and gives them the ability to very accurately profile any US Verzion customer based upon that history.

Sadly, once again, there’s very little you can do as an individual, other than to write your congressperson, or boycott just about every major telecommunications provider and credit card company out there, because it seems that all of them have been forced to cooperate with the NSA at one point or the other under the Patriot Act. The Wired article also makes a very good point: threats to our security can just as easily come from the inside as the outside. Unfortunately, for all involved, it also demonstrates the trend that trusted insiders can easily become the biggest security breach an organization has ever known.

Have you thought about what access your employees have to confidential information? How much trust have you invested in them? Do you have sufficient controls in place to protect your company from inadvertent security breaches caused by a trusted employee? What if that same employee was to deliberately breach your security?

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