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NSA will monitor private-sector networks

NSA will monitor private-sector networksSigh, These things always depress me.Someday, I am going to end up living in a cave with out any type of electrical device, just to enjoy some privacy. This will probably be illegal as not wanting some one to invade your privacy will be a crime.Is...

Tags: Vertical industries, private-sector network, NSA, government, Bush, imager, monitor, Socialism, network

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

NSA will monitor private-sector networks

The Bushization of Obama continues with a plan to involve the NSA in screening private-sector networks, The Washington Post reports. The plan not only uses the NSA to monitor private networks but it does so in a way that makes it unclear who exactly is in charge...

Tags: Monitor, Network, AT&T Corp., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, NSA, Post Story, Privacy Advocate, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forward

Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forwardI thought obama was going to kill this crap.I guess he is not. I am all for hunting down terrorists... but this "states secret" crap and other stupid laws that only stomp all over the constitution need to go.BTW, the next time...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Al-Haramain, NSA, telecom case, telecommunications

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

General: NSA doesn't want to control cybersecurity

General: NSA doesn't want to control cybersecurityThey cant control itThe same org that needs backdoors, and vulnerabilities for spying operations, surely cant be in charge of security Americas Mainframes and Servers LOL. That would be a house divided against itself, and a conflict of interest.Also..Remember these same Govt organizations...

Tags: SECURITY, NSA, cybersecurity

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

General: NSA doesn't want to control cybersecurity

As the 60-day cybersecurity review draws to a close, NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander told the RSA conference that the agency has no desire to strip responsibility from the Department of Homeland Security, Cnet's Declan McCullagh reports. Although NSA "has tremendous technical abilities" and...

Tags: Cybersecurity, NSA, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-22

RSA Conference '09: Government's approach to network security

At RSA in San Francisco, Lt. General Keith Alexander talks about how the NSA is working on methods to secure online networks. He outlines two strategies: working with other nations to create an early warning system, and offering strong technical support within the NSA.

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Network, Government, Networking, Network Security, Security, NSA, RSA

Videos 2009-04-22

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap Representative

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap RepresentativeGlad the wiretaps took placeWith the express purpose of preventing future terrorist activities, I'm glad the feds aggressively looked. With the current regime, I fear the future is going to be very different; an "enemy of the state" is now going...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Federal government, Big Government, domestic call, NSA

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Will military, NSA take over all cybersecurity operations?

Will military, NSA take over all cybersecurity operations?Considering the lack of seriousness afforded vulnerabilities .....Defending the U.S. from foreign attack is the military's prime responsibility.Given the historical lack of taking threats seriously from many private and public sectors, this is too important a tasK to be defused with no clearly...

Tags: SECURITY, Conflicker, cybersecurity operation, NSA, cybersecurity, attack

Discussion threads 2009-03-20

Cyber security chief quits over power struggle with NSA

Cyber security chief quits over power struggle with NSAjust replace windoze with Linuxand cybersecurity is a done deal!UmmLinux stops China from trying to crack government computers????The problem with your analysis is ....... it is too heavy on blaming President Bush and not enough on blaming President Obama. He didn't...

Tags: Bush, cybersecurity, NSA, Cyber Security Chief

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Cyber security chief quits over power struggle with NSA

Rod Beckworth quits after a year on the job, saying he won't be subjugated to National Security Agency. But does Obama support NSA dominance here? by Richard Koman

Tags: Cybersecurity, NSA, Janet Napolitano, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Tice: NSA mixed spying with credit card data

Tice: NSA mixed spying with credit card dataJust remember.....This is one analyst saying this with the word of mouth and not hard evidence. I know of plenty of people in this world that would come out and say whatever they had to gain a spotlight or accuse someone of...

Tags: Sales channel, Dr StrangeLove, NSA, credit card

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA?

Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA?That trusted display looks very interesting.I'd like to see that in action. :)

Tags: PDAs, Handhelds, NSA, Obama, RIM BlackBerry, PDA

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

NSA initiative pinpoints 25 Top coding errors

NSA initiative pinpoints 25 Top coding errorsSo they will ban Microsoft software, then?It's about damn time!RE: NSA initiative pinpoints 25 Top coding errorsIt's 2009. They're asking this now?They should have forced the issue on six sigma development a long time ago, or perhaps a looser definition of it, just to...

Tags: Six Sigma, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process improvement, NSA, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversationsThis could help the economy...The government should burn the recorded conversations to CDs and sell them. :-)NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversationsHrmmm I wonder if they are hiring?More lies from the Bush administration.http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060102/news_1n2bush.htmlIt only counts because AMERICANS are...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone sex, NSA, Eavesdroppers, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Congress: Open-source for U.S. military

Congress: Open-source for U.S. militaryPosting to an open source forumThis is the President of the United States. The telephone operators at the White House's best known number have been instructed to confirm for anyone who calls that this post is not a hoax.Currently our missile defenses rely on open...

Tags: open source, NSA, Red Hat Inc., Novell Inc., agency, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

TIA 2.0: NSA conducts data sweeps and mining without oversight

TIA 2.0: NSA conducts data sweeps and mining without oversightIs anyone surprisedPresident Bush is a man who stays focused on objectives and if one avenue to his objective is blocked, he'll try another rather than give up. This showed up in the campaign coverage when he ran for president...

Tags: TIA 2.0, NSA

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

TIA 2.0: NSA conducts data sweeps and mining without oversight

In a front-page piece on Monday, Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal argued that the NSA has been building, over the past several years, the same capability that was planned for Total Information Awareness. TIA was an "experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic...

Tags: U.S., Phone, Story, NSA, E-mail, Government, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and youThe question iswhy shouldn't the NSA have the same access to information Google has? The gathering of information is vital to National Defense. It must be controlled with checks and balances to prevent abuse.The United against a common enemy States of...

Tags: Databases, SECURITY, NSA, totalitarianism, personal data

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you

Here's a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don't build the systems for monitoring people's daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long...

Tags: Monitoring, Terrorism, NSA, Government, Homeland Security, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-03-10

IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips

IBM experimenting with DNA to build chipsDNA computingThe NY Times ran a piece in 1995 on DNA computing using DNA pairs as stand-ins for the 0's and 1's of binary code. The NSA is into this big time.http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEFD91338F932A25757C0A963958260RE: IBM experimenting with DNA to build chipsThis sounds like the basis for...

Tags: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Microsoft Corp., NSA, DNA, nanotube, IBM Corp., chip

Discussion threads 2008-02-20