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June 9, 2017

Real Talk on Reality (Knowledge Gap on Leaking)

Filed under: Cybersecurity,Government Data,Leaks,NSA — Patrick Durusau @ 8:32 pm

Real Talk on Reality : Leaking is high risk by the grugq.

From the post:

On June 5th The Intercept released an article based on an anonymously leaked Top Secret NSA document. The article was about one aspect of the Russian cyber campaign against the 2016 US election — the targeting of election device manufacturers. The relevance of this aspect of the Russian operation is not exactly clear, but we’ll address that in a separate post because… just hours after The Intercept’s article went live the US Department of Justice released an affidavit (and search warrant) covering the arrest of Reality Winner — the alleged leaker. Let’s look at that!

You could teach a short course on leaking from this one post but there is one “meta” issue that merits your attention.

The failures of Reality Winner and the Intercept signal users need educating in the art of information leaking.

With wide spread tracking of web browsers, training on information leaking needs to be pushed to users. It would stand out if one member of the military requested and was sent an email lesson on leaking. An email that went to everyone in a particular command, not so much.

Public Service Announcements (PSAs) in web zines, as ads, etc. with only the barest of tips, is another mechanism to consider.

If you are very creative, perhaps “Mr. Bill” claymation episodes with one principle of leaking each? Need to be funny enough that viewing/sharing isn’t suspicious.

Other suggestions?

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