Re: Cyberattack Threat
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:00 am
NSA Talking Points On Utah Data Center: We're Teaming Up With Tech Companies To 'Protect' The Internet
In order to persuade people to give up their basic freedoms and to allow the NSA to invade our privacy, they've decided to sell us on the idea that they are "protecting" the internet. What a load of crap! I'm sure that the government will shut down the internet sometime in the next two years for a few hours or a couple days and claim that hackers did it just to convince everyone that we NEED them to protect us!
LINK: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130711/10432923767/nsa-talking-points-utah-data-center-were-teaming-up-with-tech-companies-to-protect-internet.shtml
In order to persuade people to give up their basic freedoms and to allow the NSA to invade our privacy, they've decided to sell us on the idea that they are "protecting" the internet. What a load of crap! I'm sure that the government will shut down the internet sometime in the next two years for a few hours or a couple days and claim that hackers did it just to convince everyone that we NEED them to protect us!
Yeah. And by "helping" to "secure" those networks, we actually mean "partnering" with the telcos to snarf up every bit of data that crosses those networks for our own spying efforts. And they keep going on and on about the importance of these "partnerships."
WE CANNOT DO IT ALONE -- NOR IS IT IN OUR BEST INTERESTS TO TRY. JUST AS CYBERSPACE AFFECTS EVERY ASPECT OF OUR SOCIETY, SO TOO MUST OUR EFFORTS TO SECURE CYBERSPACE MOVE BEYOND GOVERNMENT TO INCLUDE THE PRIVATE SECTOR, ACADEMIA, AND OUR GLOBAL PARTNERS.
And by "secure cyberspace," we mean "undermine the privacy of everyone" by collecting all their data. That's the part the NSA truly cannot "do alone."
LINK: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130711/10432923767/nsa-talking-points-utah-data-center-were-teaming-up-with-tech-companies-to-protect-internet.shtml