Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "Big Delete," according to an NSA source and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information, is creating unintended consequences.

It’s basically impossible to talk about how to secure a computer system (or how to gain covert access to one) without talking about which account has which privilege, let along things like how to ensure an unbiased random number generator, or do an analysis of who has what without looking at an intersection of sets.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    So you’re telling me the NSA isn’t allowed to archive any communications with those banned words in them? If I’m a terrorist group, can I develop a communications protocol using those words and thus make my communications utterly untraceable by the NSA? 27 banned words. Map 26 of them to letters. Boom. Now you can send untraceable messages!

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      14·
      1 day ago

      Little-known fact: US sanctions are similarly keyword based. So if you call your international terrorist group Exxon, you can cause real problems for the oil company