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Obama's statement on Cyber Defense; days after Edward Snowden says we should focus on Cyber Defense instead of Offense.
NPR- Obama: If we're going to be connected, then we need to be protected
President Obama said Monday he wants the federal government to do more to prevent cyber attacks. He outlined a series of proposals designed to safeguard personal data — steps he'll talk more about in next week's State of the Union address.
"Dozens of software companies have already signed a voluntary pledge not to misuse students' data. But some in the industry worry that a new federal law would go too far."
Snowden's interview Transcript
Snowden: "DES was actually stronger than we thought it was at the time because the NSA had secretly manipulated the standard to make it stronger back in the day, which was weird, but that shows the difference in thinking between the ’80s and the ’90s."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 15 2015, @01:56PM
Clean algorithms do not do anyone any good if the software and hardware has backdoors.
Seed numbers are tiny, keys are small. It could be that none of it from any normal computer or phone needs to travel over the Internet or at all. I wonder what the resolution is for quartets of ELINT or MASINT satellites.
If it is feasible then they're dong that in addition to everything else. Considering the amount of data they collect it is a safe bet that everything is compromised.