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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: 3, Insightful) by SMI on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:21PM
"The real problem is if your spies spy on your leaders and your own people without good and proper oversight."
The real problem is if your spies spy on your leaders and your own people without warrant and cause. FTFY.
According to TPTB, we already have an abundance of 'good and proper oversight', but that didn't/hasn't stopped mass surveilance, and it doesn't make it ok, either.