Posted on 09/30/2013 11:49:47 AM PDT by shego
Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the embattled National Security Agency (NSA), says he is willing to share cyberattack information with the private sector—an offer seen as a Trojan horse by at least one expert....
Revelations of massive NSA data gathering from telecom and Internet companies has sparked a fierce national debate on whether the spy agency's antiterrorism activities have gone too far in collecting information on innocent Americans.
In claiming the NSA has done nothing illegal, Alexander blamed calls from Capitol Hill to restrict government surveillance on "sensationalized" reporting and "media leaks," Politico reported he said in his speech.
However, Jerry Brito, senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, said the NSA already had the authority to share data if it really wanted to. The agency could declassify information on its own and pass it along to companies.
"There's nothing stopping them today from sharing data from the NSA to these companies," said Brito, who heads Mercatus' Technology Policy Program. "What they really want is more information about the communications of Americans under the rubric of cybersecurity information sharing."...
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Fox asks hens to team on coop security.
that guy is dangerous
It’s long past time for him to retire and build his fanboy duplicate of the Starship Enterprise bridge in his own garage with his own money.
It’s high time the SD and civilian police were absorbed into the SS. That way they only have to aswer to Himmler.
If you really want cyber security, get Congress to forbid much of what the NSA is doing to spy on American citizens and prohibit any information that is discovered by the NSA which is not criminal information from being shared with any other agency in the Executive branch.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
We seem to have a big problem with that these days...
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