“It’s not a ‘sophisticated’ bypass, the NSA didn’t protect databases from Database and Systems Administrators. Here’s a blog article by a database security product vendor’s research group about this widely known problem from January of last year. Even then, the information in the blog article was long in the tooth. This implies that everything the NSA has said about the careful auditing they do to prevent unauthorized access by employees and contractors is a joke – it’s not possible when you don’t take these basic precautions.”
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/nsa-not-secure-agency.html
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