Sleep well, I don’t see much of a problem here. Something like this was long overdue to be consolidated from several agencies (mostly NSA) into one strat-group umbrella, in light of multiple well known attempted cyber-attacks from China, Korea, Russia, Baltic Republics, Caribbeans etc.
It doesn’t create any new capabilities, just organizes and coordinates them under one umbrella, with people who already worked on this and understand the nature and can possibly prevent enemy cyber-attacks, or help coordinate tracking of terrorist sites.
It doesn’t employ any “new” technology, or any “new” powers, only makes it more transparent, somewhat similar to or in line with FISA Court. If anything, it would be more difficult to abuse with impunity, because multiple agencies’ Op-Centers would go under more central command. Think of it as cyber-DHS.
Actually there is a lot to be concerned about. New monitoring agents will be mandatory which report back to the the agency (EINSTEIN 2 & 3). Action (taking control of a private network, preemptive strike, etc) can be executed simply by a request from DHS.
Pretty much what I was thinking. The headline is much scarier than the concept. I’m just relieved this isn’t some new “czar” with a plan.
We sound like the leftists who oppose the AZ law. Sure the AZ law does not allow profiling, but it opens the door to those evil police to abuse their power and profile (I paraphrase Alan Combs).
We need this, what everyone is afraid of, is the man who is running the country and the potential for him to abuse power. We need to neuter him in November. Of course, I mean that figuratively for the Secret Service, FBI or NSA types monitor FR. Damn now my paranoia is showing.
Sleep well, I don’t see much of a problem here. Something like this was long overdue to be consolidated from several agencies (mostly NSA) into one strat-group umbrella, in light of multiple well known attempted cyber-attacks from China, Korea, Russia, Baltic Republics, Caribbeans etc.
Yeah, those other governmental entities in other parts of the world ... they are the ones who are going to crash our Internet and make it impossible to use it for what we've been doing thus far.
If we have to, we can "disconnect" the country from these other attacking sources, in other countries, and isolate ourselves, while still doing business, until the problem is taken care of.
If it's an attack originating inside this country (to avoid the move of isolating everyone in the country from an "outside" attack), then a segment of the network can be isolated from everything else, until the problem is solved.
Either we do that, or else we leave our country wide-open for all sorts of outside attacks and no way to effectively respond.