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This is like watching a super awkward scene in a movie or TV show that just won't end. The word "cyber" has been applied to every noun, and I've apparently been out of the loop on terms like "techno-boondoggle". This is just a little terrifying.

Since about 2001 I've considered anyone who used the word "cyber" to either be internet-illiterate or a politician (usually both).

Re: Live on C-SPAN now: NSA Chief Testifies at Cybersecurity Hearing

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Key quotes: "Techno-boondoggles" "The government is very good at spending money" "Protect our domains: .mil, .gov and .com" "This is a committee that is loaded with talent!" "Rarely has a committee had so much talent!" "We are in a cyberwar every day. Every time someone steals our identity." "...continue to warn us against 'cyber', as a continuous threat." "I bring to your attention, the President's budget document" "The President has asked congress for 13 billion dollars in order to execute the cybersecurity strategy" "Protecting the taxpayer, in their role as both citizen and taxpayer." General Alexander introduced @ 8:00. General Alexander begins @ 13:30. General Alexander quotes: "So this is a bright future that we have! But it's complicated by cyberespionage, by cyberhacking..." Interesting @ 18:30 .. General Alexander mentions operating lawfully and the chairwoman's evil knowing grin is filmed.

Re: Live on C-SPAN now: NSA Chief Testifies at Cybersecurity Hearing

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post #35

This is like watching a super awkward scene in a movie or TV show that just won't end. The word "cyber" has been applied to every noun, and I've apparently been out of the loop on terms like "techno-boondoggle". This is just a little terrifying.

I honestly cringed at "Cyber-warriors"

Re: Live on C-SPAN now: NSA Chief Testifies at Cybersecurity Hearing

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post #63

It's as if all the important decisions have already been made and they are just going through the motions.

Yeah. They are all reading from scripts. "This is something that we take looks down at script very seriously." Also, it appears that they were all privy to what each other was going to say before the hearing. " looks down at script As you said ..." Does that disturb anyone else?

If you notice, many of the papers were passed to him as he read, so it's possible one of his advisers had many prepared answers or simply wrote them down as the senator asked him questions.

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post #76
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cyberhope, cyberchange, etc

im !american so really not backing hope and change here... but should not you/we be directing our vitriol in a bipartisan fashion? with regards to the mass expansion of surveillance, shit seems pretty fucked up across the political divide.

It's really funny. Civil liberties seem to be the one thing that both Democrats and Republicans can agree is worth protecting, but both Democrat and Republican politicians tend to give bipartisan support towards programs that infringe on them.

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post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. They are all reading from scripts. "This is something that we take looks down at script very seriously." Also, it appears that they were all privy to what each other was going to say before the hearing. " looks down at script As you said ..." Does that disturb anyone else?

If you notice, many of the papers were passed to him as he read, so it's possible one of his advisers had many prepared answers or simply wrote them down as the senator asked him questions.

It wasn't just him, it was everyone, the senators included.

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post #29

Mikulski 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.

War on privacy?

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post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. They are all reading from scripts. "This is something that we take looks down at script very seriously." Also, it appears that they were all privy to what each other was going to say before the hearing. " looks down at script As you said ..." Does that disturb anyone else?

It is already known that the NSA chief received the questions Sen. Wyden planned to ask him in advance , to give him time to prepare a response, a few months ago. This is said as if it is business as usual (and used to paint him in a worse light, since he lied before Congress after being given time to plan his answers), and I have no reason to think it is not. Yet another reason to vote third party.

It was a clever move by Wyden to try to catch him in a perjury trap.
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