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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: tuolumnejim on February 04, 2010, 08:40:13 AM
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The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google — and its users — from future attack.
Google and the NSA declined to comment on the partnership. But sources with knowledge of the arrangement, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the alliance is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google's policies or laws that protect the privacy of Americans' online communications. The sources said the deal does not mean the NSA will be viewing users' searches or e-mail accounts or that Google will be sharing proprietary data.
The partnership strikes at the core of one of the most sensitive issues for the government and private industry in the evolving world of cybersecurity: how to balance privacy and national security interests. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair called the Google attacks, which the company acknowledged in January, a "wake-up call." Cyberspace cannot be protected, he said, without a "collaborative effort that incorporates both the U.S. private sector and our international partners."
But achieving collaboration is not easy, in part because private companies do not trust the government to keep their secrets and in part because of concerns that collaboration can lead to continuous government monitoring of private communications. Privacy advocates, concerned about a repeat of the NSA's warrantless interception of Americans' phone calls and e-mails after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, say information-sharing must be limited and closely overseen.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35231454/ns/technology_and_science-washington_post
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I clicked on this thread with a snide comment about Google and Big Brotha forming in the back of my mind, but after reading, I wonder if our recent rash of ChiCom "archiving" bots might not have been related to this...
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I don't think Google was the only cyber company to get hit by the Chi-Coms, just the biggest and most widely known.
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Why does this sound like a very bad idea?
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Why does this sound like a very bad idea?
Probably because it is.
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Probably because it is.
Big Brother will be watching soon
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Big Brother will be watching soon
Will be?!?!?!?!?!? How about, "has been" (since 1997 or so) Does "Carnivore" or "Echelon" not ring a bell??