White House, NSA weigh cybersecurity, personal privacy (WH blocks NSA from expanding monitoring)

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5. No shit. Not everyone is that stupid though, thankfully.

I used to work for a company you've heard of which sold a product which government or really big corporate entities use. One of the things I did was assist customers licensing the product. I have no idea why they didn't just give site-wide licenses. Anyway, we didn't get many calls requiring assistance with licensing but most of them were from the little rooms at military installations or testing facilities which, as a measure of security, had no internet access, had completely autonomous networks. All the licensing was on-line and they couldn't activate the product.

I fed the code they read me into something and it spit out their response code which they typed in manually.

Very nice folks. Everything punctuated with "Sir" or "Ma'am". One thing I take comfort in is that all the people that I dealt with in their little secure rooms always struck me a very professional, clear-minded people.

PB