Keith Alexander, NSA Chief, once blamed his late arrival at a Washington event to a DDoS (distributed denial of service) hacking attack on city street lights.... Wow.
Got a source? That sounds so incredible I almost want it to be true.
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NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’
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Re: NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
maybe they should attack the perpetrators instead??
Maybe indeed, but what was easier?
But what good does it do?
"Oh look, the bad guys are spying on our people, what can we do?"
"Stop them!"
"We can't!"
"Ok, let's spy on them too then!"
If this seems like a logical conversation then change "spy on" to "rape" and see if it still makes sense.
Re: NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’
#33One way of interpreting his comments: We suck up all the data and then apply filters to remove domestic information. Although the NSA has access to information on the American people, it does not specifically target Americans and discards purely domestic information. As such, it is not "spying on the American people" so much as inflicting collateral damage on the privacy of the American people. To a certain extent, t…
I know this is reductio at hitlerum, but about 70 years ago, you had to be 49% foreign or less not to be filtered out...
The standards were actually stricter.