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ThinThread is the name of a project that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) pursued during the 1990s, according to a May 17, 2006 article in ''The Baltimore Sun''. The program involved wiretapping and sophisticated analysis of the resulting data, but according to the article, the program was discontinued three weeks before the September 11, 2001 attacks due to the changes in priorities and the consolidation of U.S. intelligence authority.〔("Obama's Crackdown on Whistleblowers." )〕 The "change in priority" consisted of the decision made by the director of NSA General Michael V. Hayden to go with a concept called Trailblazer, despite the fact that ThinThread was a working prototype that claimed to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens. ThinThread was dismissed and replaced by the Trailblazer Project, which lacked the privacy protections.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NSA datamining pushes tech envelope ).〕 A consortium led by Science Applications International Corporation was awarded a $280 million contract to develop Trailblazer in 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SAIC Team Wins National Security Agency TRAILBLAZER Contract )〕 == Whistleblowing == A group of former NSA workers — Kirk Wiebe, William Binney, Ed Loomis, and Thomas A. Drake, along with House Intelligence Committee staffer Diane Roark (an expert on the NSA budget〔 (Exclusive: House Republican Staffer Introduced Alleged NSA Leaker to Reporter ) , Mark Hosenball, Declassified , Newsweek.com, 2010 Apr 16, accessed 2010 Apr 17 〕) — believed the operational prototype system called ThinThread was a better solution than Trailblazer, which was just a concept on paper at the time. They complained to the DoD Inspector General office in 2002 about mismanagement and the waste of taxpayer money at the NSA surrounding the Trailblazer program. In 2007 the FBI raided the homes of these people, an evolution of President Bush's crackdown on whistleblowers and "leaks" after the New York Times disclosed a separate program (see ''NSA warrantless surveillance controversy''). In 2010, one of the people who had helped the IG in the ensuing investigation, NSA official Thomas Andrews Drake, was charged with espionage,〔〔 (Indictment Continues Obama Administration’s War on Leaks ) ,Shane Harris, washingtonian, 01/25/2011, retrieved 3/9/11 〕 part of the Obama administration's crackdown on whistleblowers and "leaks".〔〔〔 The original charges against him were later dropped and he pled to a misdemeanor. The result of the DoD IG complaint was a 2004 audit report that was released under FOIA in 2011.〔 Although highly redacted, the report contained significant criticisms of Trailblazer, and included some relatively minor criticisms of ThinThread, for example, citing a low "quality of service and support" from the ThinThread program team, a lack of documentation, a lack of a configuration management system, and a lack of a trouble ticket system. However, "The findings that led to the recommendations would not have prevented the successful deployment of THINTHREAD ... the recommendations were made to improve the operational efficiency of THINTHREAD after it was deployed ..."〔See the report, linked above. page 79 & preceding〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ThinThread」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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