Letters to the Editor: How to stop low-level IT workers from leaking national security secrets (via latimesopinion )
First, there are too many items that are classified, which leads to a lack of resources for protecting information that is truly important. Experts have estimated that up to 90% of documents that are classified do not need to be.
Second is the lack of layering. In the case of the latest leak allegedly by 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira and the infamous case of Edward Snowden, both were perpetrated by low-level information technology personnel who were given access to work on the physical computers the data were on.Just encrypting the data on the computers would have seriously hindered the leaks, because the IT personnel would not have had an idea of what files were worth copying.
Furthermore, having those IT people supervised by higher-level personnel to make sure nothing illicit could take place would help. How likely would leaks by an IT person be with both those layers in place?A solution to addressing the unauthorized release of classified information may rest in the “two-man rule,” currently used to protect, for instance, nuclear weapons.
Requiring the sign-off of a second knowledgeable person for top-secret access might be costly and burdensome. But when weighed against the cost of these leaks — and yes, the cost of granting a clearance to a 21-year-old service member in the first place — it might be a bargain.
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