Here’s another variation on Their Capers’ Success:

According to the chief systems engineer of the US National Security Agency/Central Security Service, the task of protecting the country’s vital telecommunications and computer systems information is becoming more difficult. “We not keeping pace, we’re moving backwards. We’re taking a step back. Technology is outpacing what we can provide from an information assurance perspective,” he added.

Much of it is attributable to the fact that information management and sharing has been underemphasized or usually forgotten with the result that a lot of networks contain vast amount of duplicated data or even superfluous data

Network security lacking – Experts Opine, Steve Hagen, Network Security Journal, 2 May 2006

So not only are we not cooperating enough to catch miscreants, we’re also leaving duplicate information lying about that makes it easy for them to caper, and this problem extends to the intelligence agencies.

-jsq