I, for one, am amazed (and impressed) that a single man was able to leak so much. Of course, “knowing” (or, at least, having access to)\u00a0necessarily comes\u00a0before “leaking”, and Snowden definitely\u00a0knew a lot. Regardless of whether the leaks end up producing\u00a0any limitations on the organization’s activities, I’m sure that the\u00a0NSA must be taking every measure\u00a0possible to\u00a0prevent this sort of incident from happening again. They can’t really afford “another Snowden,” so to speak.<\/p>\n
To this end, the\u00a0NSA is almost surely\u00a0re-evaluating exactly who has\u00a0access to their intel, and just how much access these\u00a0individuals are\u00a0granted. Yet they can only do so much. For now, humans\u00a0are a necessary danger. To make sense and use of the mountains of information they collect, the NSA needs at least some\u00a0high-authority individuals with the keys to the kingdom. And while these endowed individuals exist, so too does the possibility for more whistleblowers. Whistleblowers who, when acting responsibly, keep tabs on\u00a0and boldly announce what even the most advanced AI can’t yet compute:\u00a0the (im)morality<\/em>\u00a0of the actions they are witness to. The world needs more Snowdens\/leakers\/whistleblowers\/whatevers – I just hope that there’s still room for them.<\/p>\n The “NSA Files Decoded” article notes\u00a0that the NSA dramatically expanded the scope of its surveillance operations after 9\/11, in an attempt to close\u00a0the perceived gaps in America’s security network that may have\u00a0allowed\u00a0the attack to succeed. Put simply, September 11th, 2001 was a huge “wake-up call” for the NSA, and served as the catalyst for a … Continue reading Can There Be More “Snowdens”?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-group-3","category-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"http:\/\/thecontributor.com\/humor\/five-cartoons-about-bradley-manning-and-war-whistleblowers\"](\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/files\/2015\/02\/Bradley-Manning-cartoon-03.jpg\")
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