NSA: des erreurs involontaires... (Washington post)

Éditorial intéressant du Washington post sur le dossier troublant des pouvoirs de la NSA. Il y aurait peu d'abus, mais on reconnaît un bon nombre d'erreurs involontaires.

 "On Friday, NSA Director of Compliance John DeLong offered some context. The NSA, for example, queries its various databases millions of times per month, he reported. And, he insisted, willful abuse of the NSA’s systems is almost non-existent. Still, even a very-low incident rate can cause discomfort when there is so much the agency can sift through.

At the least, the NSA must be more transparent in its error reporting. It doesn’t need to provide properly-classified operational details in order to admit that it messes up. The audit The Post published not only discloses the raw number of violations in the period it covers, but also breaks down those violations by the legal authorities under which the NSA’s reviews were supposed to take place, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It’s no secret these authorities exist, so why not do the same regularly, and in public? The agency could also release information on the types of violations it’s seeing — user or systems — and how it caught them. There’s nothing dangerous about any of that.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/understanding-the-nsas-errors/2013/08/17/c218c294-06bf-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html