To the editor: There are two necessary features of safety not talked about within the op-ed article “How may a 21-year-old leak nationwide safety knowledge with out the Pentagon understanding?”
First, there are too many gadgets which might be labeled, which ends up in an absence of assets for shielding info that’s actually necessary. Specialists have estimated that as much as 90% of paperwork which might be labeled don’t have to be.
Second is the shortage of layering. Within the case of the most recent leak allegedly by 21-year-old Air Nationwide Guardsman Jack Teixeira and the notorious case of Edward Snowden, each have been perpetrated by low-level info expertise personnel who got entry to work on the bodily computer systems the info have been on.
Simply encrypting the info on the computer systems would have severely hindered the leaks, as a result of the IT personnel wouldn’t have had an concept of what information have been price copying.
Moreover, having these IT folks supervised by higher-level personnel to verify nothing illicit may happen would assist. How seemingly would leaks by an IT particular person be with each these layers in place?
Michael Lampel, Granada Hills
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To the editor: An answer to addressing the unauthorized launch of labeled info could relaxation within the “two-man rule,” at present used to guard, for example, nuclear weapons.
Requiring the sign-off of a second educated particular person for top-secret entry is likely to be pricey and burdensome. However when weighed in opposition to the price of these leaks — and sure, the price of granting a clearance to a 21-year-old service member within the first place — it is likely to be a discount.
Trish Kelly, Corona
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To the editor: Nicholas Goldberg’s op-ed column on whistleblowers dedicated an offense by even mentioning Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden in the identical sentence.
Ellsberg revealed lies about unlawful actions within the Vietnam Conflict. He turned himself in to face the authorized penalties, as a result of he thought it was price it.
Snowden revealed what anybody who reads the Congressional Report may have realized in the event that they assumed the Nationwide Safety Company was doing what we advised them to do. Then he turned tail with stolen intelligence and fled, in the end to Russia. He nonetheless refuses to face the implications, presumably as a result of he thinks it’s not price it.
Mentioning Aldrich Ames and Snowden in the identical sentence was applicable, nonetheless; each have been self-serving. Ellsberg is a real patriot.
Dave Suess, Redondo Seashore
