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plimsoll

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8. I started preaching this in the early 1990s.
Wed Apr 26, 2023, 10:07 PM
Apr 2023

But this appears to have been improper controls.
This person should not have had access to the information. He should not have been able to copy the data and remove it from the facility. It doesn't really matter what controls are in place if you give root access to everyone.


In one respect this is much like the classic stories of the Stasi and KGB recruiting clerical workers with the lure of a more exciting life. So this should have been a lesson learned by the intelligence services in the 1950s.

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