Re: Petraeus

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

See also:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/gmail-location-data-petraeus/

- ferg

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:17 PM, phester <funsec () armorfirewall com> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>
> > Upon further review...and since this is *funsec*, I'd like to ask a
> > few rhetorical security questions about this.  I'm sure there are
> > more that haven't occurred to me yet.
> >
> > 1. How is it that the Director of the CIA does not know how to use
> > email (relatively) securely?   Did he really compose unencrypted messages
> > to his paramour using CIA computers on the CIA network and send them
> > via CIA mail servers?  Really?  REALLY?
>
>
> He used gmail, from cia gear. Thousands of mails over a period of months.
>
>
> > 4. If the internal mechanisms of government aren't sufficient to (quickly)
> > catch a very very senior person having an affair -- and doing it
> > incompetently -- then why should we believe that they're sufficient to
> > catch a well-trained, careful, diligent spy?
>
>
> By reading their personal mails? Should this be done by an algorithm, or
> live person?
>
>
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