The rapid Twitter crowds doubting NYT sourcing on this—mocking reporters technical knowledge—seem to have missed it.https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/753262915227119616 …
Yes, there are other things on that list--like linguistic skills--that can also be addressed with urgency but aren't.
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Crypto is LE problem. Prove it. How about Paris attack? NO PROOF OF USE! Ok, here's proof. Well, it didn't matter anyway.
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2) "Problem" is "hurts oppty to thwart attack." What did that here, given evidence, is metadata dragnet fail, among others.
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Yes, metadata has failure rate. Still useful. When job is to ID possible threats and then real threat subset, content matters.
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Very rare to have showstopping "but for this X tool, attack" story. Even rarer to say "if we'd had X we could have stopped it"
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And neither would mean we have to accept that ends justify means. But considering stakes, should be duty of intellectual honesty
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Great. Let me know when IC-leak based story hangs together. This one doesn't.
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