Hope someone out there will post a Youtube link once it's over, or something comparable - can't seem to access it at all.
Live on C-SPAN now: NSA Chief Testifies at Cybersecurity Hearing
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#22I find it deeply disturbing that Sen Mikulski clearly does not understand the meaning of the words she is reading.
Since I am unable to access the stream at this time, in which way is her lack of understanding noticeable?
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#23Mikulski keeps calling "identity theft" war. This is a crime, it is not an act of war!
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#24In this hearing there has been so much smearing in reguards to Snowden's educational background. There are plenty of smart people who didn't graduate from high school.
It may be true that people without traditional education credentials are likely to be less conformist/more likely to cause trouble.
Whether that so-called "trouble" is good or bad and for whom is another thing, which can be quite subjective even.
Problems at school aren't necessarily an indicator of a failure. There are many examples of bad school performance which doesn't result in bad performance in whatever the person pursues. As far as I am aware, even Einstein didn't really like being in school and had problems concentrating, yet his scientific achievements are undeniabe.
Hence the problem with focusing on educational background is that it gives the false impression that bad background -> bad person. What Snowden did is, as far as I am aware, considered an extremely good thing when it comes to privacy of US and non-US citizens alike. So again, Snowdens lack of educational background could be viewed in similar light that of those others who haven't been hindered by the lack of school performance in the past(and in the future).
I claim that school and educational performance doesn't mean a shit in individual basis(as in case of Snowden, he's an individual after all), although it might mean when one evaluates people collectively as a group. And even then exceptional individuals come up.
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#25The conclusion seems to be that in order for the NSA chief to answer any interesting questions they have to declassify information. Which the NSA chief believes is a good idea as long as it doesn't harm the american people. What pieces of information they should declassify and make available to the public will be discussed in the closed hearing.
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#26What the heck is a techno boondoggle? What a hillbilly sounding term that only makes me cringe at what kind things the US government is going to cook up for us cyber pros, lol.
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#27In this hearing there has been so much smearing in reguards to Snowden's educational background. There are plenty of smart people who didn't graduate from high school.
And the intelligence community actively recruits high school graduates because allowing them to go to college decreases the chances they can recruit them later.
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#28Oh, this is awesome: Keith Alexander explaining how what we really should do is let the NSA have a database that stores absolutely everything, and then they promise only to search through it when it is "reasonable."
See, I'm personally of the same opinion. I couldn't figure it out, but then it hit me. It's the same line of logic that the military uses in their security clearances. Back in the day I used to work for a JAG lawyer, and have several friends that are/were in the military. So I do have some knowledge of the matter.
The way they do things is this. There's clearance and then there's need to know. So for instance one of my friends worked in network IT for the military. So had access to computers with "top secret" information on them. However, he wasn't allowed to access any of the information on the computers. Simply to use them for his job. Sound familiar to what the NSA is saying?
If there's other people on here that are closer to the military than I was please correct me, but it all starts to make "sense" when you think about it that way. I'm not saying it's right, in fact I think this system is likely problematic in a non military setting (and perhaps even within one as well)
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#29Mikulski keeps calling "identity theft" war. This is a crime, it is not an act of war!
They're talking about their battle against cyber-crime as war - which is a reasonable statement to make. It's just the same as when governments and new agencies talk about the "war on drugs" etc.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It may be true that people without traditional education credentials are likely to be less conformist/more likely to cause trouble.
Whether that so-called "trouble" is good or bad and for whom is another thing, which can be quite subjective even. Problems at school aren't necessarily an indicator of a failure. There are many examples of bad school performance which doesn't result in bad performance in whatever the person pursues. As far as I am aware, even Einstein didn't really like being in school and had problems concentrating, yet his scienti…
I think what Snowden did is a great thing, but it probably isn't great from the NSA's perspective. The NSA probably wants smart people who can do what they're told and keep their mouths shut.