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Dopefish
on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:00AM
from the community-oversight-is-needed dept.
from the community-oversight-is-needed dept.
AnonTechie writes "Bruce Schneier:
The NSA has become too big and too powerful. What was supposed to be a single agency with a dual mission --protecting the security of U.S. communications and eavesdropping on the communications of our enemies has become unbalanced in the post-Cold War, all-terrorism-all-the-time era. Putting the U.S. Cyber Command, the military's cyberwar wing, in the same location and under the same commander, expanded the NSA's power. The result is an agency that prioritizes intelligence gathering over security, and that's increasingly putting us all at risk.
It's time we thought about breaking up the National Security Agency."
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by TheRaven on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:02PM
It doesn't take a genius to work out that this isn't going to end well, especially when there are obvious metrics for assessing the first but not the second...
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by AnonTechie on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:21PM
Well said. Such attempts have been made in the past and they haven't ended well at all. See the Law of Unintended Consequences ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequenc es [wikipedia.org] ) or the Cobra Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect [wikipedia.org] ).
If other countries such as United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, China are also involved in such activities, then, can we ever hope to have secure systems ??
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by internetguy on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:28PM
When Eric Schmidt went to North Korea this is what he told them:
"The Internet was built for everyone, including North Koreans. The quickest way to get economic growth in North Korea is to open up the Internet."
He failed to say that it would make NSA's job a lot easier if they would connect their systems to the Internet.
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