Post-Snowden NSA is cutting sysadmin access to data

One of the mysteries of the Prism data collection controversy is how Edward Snowden, an IT guy and not an agent after all, had access to all the stuff he leaked. Now, the National Security Agency will be cutting off such access to 90 percent of its roughly 1,000 systems administrators, according to Bloomberg News. NSA Director Keith Alexander disclosed the plan — without mentioning Snowden by name — Thursday at a cybersecurity conference in New York.

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