Sysadmins; the NSA is trying to crack YOU.

Walter Dnes waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 21 22:56:37 UTC 2014


https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/20/inside-nsa-secret-efforts-hunt-hack-system-administrators/

> Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep
> computer networks in order - and this has turned them into unwitting
> targets of the National Security Agency for simply doing their
> jobs. According to a secret document provided by NSA whistleblower
> Edward Snowden, the agency tracks down the private email and Facebook
> accounts of system administrators (or sys admins, as they are often
> called), before hacking their computers to gain access to the networks
> they control.

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