There is one secret Edward Snowden spilled that even the most hard-boiled anti-privacy security operative can’t ignore: The National Security Agency is broken. It is broken not just because it somehow let a contractor steal a voluminous portion of its secrets, but because many of those secrets paint a picture of a dysfunctional agency. The NSA not only can’t stop a leaker like Snowden; it’s uncertain that the NSA can do a good chunk of what’s in its job description.
via NSA incompetence: Ways to fix the National Security Agency. – Slate Magazine.
