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The Lawfare Podcast

Episode #54: Inside NSA, Part III--Wherein We Talk to Lonny Anderson, Chief of NSA's Technology Directorate

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4.76.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Bobby Chesney and Benjamin Wittes sit down with the head of IT at NSA and talk about how Edward Snowden did it, and what's being done to make sure the next Edward Snowden can't do it again. We talked about why NSA is different from other government agencies in technology development. And we talked about what would have happened had NSA built the health care web site.

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no bull, and the aftermath on 17 June I went down to the White House with Deppie

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director they said is there another snow and I said I don't I quickly learned

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that wasn't the answer right because they were hoping to hear it so you can

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never stop someone who's who's determined again has got all the all the right

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badges able to do what has some technical skills you're not going to ever be

0:58.1

100% secure the network we're building assumes we have insiders and we're

1:03.5

going to do everything we can to fair so so if you would ask me as our network

1:08.8

secure I think there's secure as anybody's networks do we potentially have

1:13.3

someone inside our networks who's here to conduct malicious activity of one

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type or another chances are we do I'm Benjamin with us and this is the LawFair

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podcast special edition part three inside NSA yes Bobby Chesney and I brought a

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recording device into the fort need complex so you don't have to do it don't

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try this at home but we smuggled out data podcast interviews with five of the

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agencies senior management team our third subject was Lonnie Anderson the head

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of the NSA's technology director it it's sort of like the IT shop for the

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people who break into the IT shops of foreign adversaries we sat down with

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him to talk about how Snowden did it and what kind of changes he's

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implemented to make sure the next Snowden can't or at least that it isn't easy

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we talked about the differences between data and the documents Snowden took

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