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masuki bance (905 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-03-09 08:21 AMOriginal message* * *NSA to monitor private networks for cyberattacks* * * Edited on Fri Jul-03-09 08:30 AM by masuki banceQuoteThe Obama administration is going ahead with a controversial plan to have the National Security Agency screen government email and other official computer traffic passing over private networks.The plan is part of a cybersecurity initiative launched by the Bush administration in 2008 and known as Einstein 3. The purpose of the program is to protect government computer systems from attack, and the Department of Homeland Security insists that only data going in and out of government systems will be subject to special screening for malicious code.Tests of the effectiveness of the program — which is derived from one used on military networks — were to have begun in February but have been delayed by debates within the Obama administration. Both the military origin of the system and the involvement of the NSA have aroused concerns about privacy.President Obama promised in May that there would be no intrusion on private communications, and the administration has indicated its intention to consult with privacy and civil liberaties groups on an ongoing basis.Ari Schwartz, a vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, told the Associated Press, “There are a number of concerns that come with this process, the main one being how do you go about protecting the system in a way that insures you’re not monitoring private systems. I don’t have a full answer to that question. But the president made that pledge.â€Despite these assurances, it is not clear whether non-governmental data can be kept out of the monitoring system, and the plan has critics even within DHS. Former assistant secretary of homeland security Stewart A. Baker told the Washington Post, “The bitter battles over privacy and NSA’s role in domestic wiretapping hang over cybersecurity like a toxic cloud.â€Baker, who served as NSA general counsel during the Clinton administration, also suggested that the Bush administration should be held responsible for creating many of the current problems by trying to keep so much of Einstein 3 secret.“The solution was veiled in secrecy in a way that allowed people outside to be suspicious,†he explained, “so anybody who mistrusted the intelligence community could just assume that it was because they were doing something that they shouldn’t be doing.â€http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/02/nsa-to-monitor-a... / Edited on Fri Jul-03-09 08:30 AM by masuki banceThe Obama administration is going ahead with a controversial plan to have the National Security Agency screen government email and other official computer traffic passing over private networks.The plan is part of a cybersecurity initiative launched by the Bush administration in 2008 and known as Einstein 3. The purpose of the program is to protect government computer systems from attack, and the Department of Homeland Security insists that only data going in and out of government systems will be subject to special screening for malicious code.Tests of the effectiveness of the program — which is derived from one used on military networks — were to have begun in February but have been delayed by debates within the Obama administration. Both the military origin of the system and the involvement of the NSA have aroused concerns about privacy.President Obama promised in May that there would be no intrusion on private communications, and the administration has indicated its intention to consult with privacy and civil liberaties groups on an ongoing basis.Ari Schwartz, a vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, told the Associated Press, “There are a number of concerns that come with this process, the main one being how do you go about protecting the system in a way that insures you’re not monitoring private systems. I don’t have a full answer to that question. But the president made that pledge.â€Despite these assurances, it is not clear whether non-governmental data can be kept out of the monitoring system, and the plan has critics even within DHS. Former assistant secretary of homeland security Stewart A. Baker told the Washington Post, “The bitter battles over privacy and NSA’s role in domestic wiretapping hang over cybersecurity like a toxic cloud.â€Baker, who served as NSA general counsel during the Clinton administration, also suggested that the Bush administration should be held responsible for creating many of the current problems by trying to keep so much of Einstein 3 secret.“The solution was veiled in secrecy in a way that allowed people outside to be suspicious,†he explained, “so anybody who mistrusted the intelligence community could just assume that it was because they were doing something that they shouldn’t be doing.â€http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/02/nsa-to-monitor-a... /Revealing comments from RawStory-#marinessuck****ING LIARS!#kurtHey that’s great news — boy do I ever feel safe now that I know the NSA’s looking out for me.Listen fellas, just tell me which death camp you’re gonna need me to report to and maybe I can save you the trouble of rounding me up — more efficient, don’t you think?eta this from WaPo-...Each time a private citizen visited a "dot-gov" Web site or sent an e-mail to a civilian government employee, that action would be screened for potential harm to the network."We absolutely intend to use the technical resources, the substantial ones, that NSA has. But . . . they will be guided, led and in a sense directed by the people we have at the Department of Homeland Security," the department's secretary, Janet Napolitano, told reporters in a discussion about cybersecurity efforts.Under a classified pilot program approved during the Bush administration, NSA data and hardware would be used to protect the networks of some civilian government agencies. Part of an initiative known as Einstein 3, the plan called for telecommunications companies to route the Internet traffic of civilian agencies through a monitoring box that would search for and block computer codes designed to penetrate or otherwise compromise networks...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
The Obama administration is going ahead with a controversial plan to have the National Security Agency screen government email and other official computer traffic passing over private networks.The plan is part of a cybersecurity initiative launched by the Bush administration in 2008 and known as Einstein 3. The purpose of the program is to protect government computer systems from attack, and the Department of Homeland Security insists that only data going in and out of government systems will be subject to special screening for malicious code.Tests of the effectiveness of the program — which is derived from one used on military networks — were to have begun in February but have been delayed by debates within the Obama administration. Both the military origin of the system and the involvement of the NSA have aroused concerns about privacy.President Obama promised in May that there would be no intrusion on private communications, and the administration has indicated its intention to consult with privacy and civil liberaties groups on an ongoing basis.Ari Schwartz, a vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, told the Associated Press, “There are a number of concerns that come with this process, the main one being how do you go about protecting the system in a way that insures you’re not monitoring private systems. I don’t have a full answer to that question. But the president made that pledge.â€Despite these assurances, it is not clear whether non-governmental data can be kept out of the monitoring system, and the plan has critics even within DHS. Former assistant secretary of homeland security Stewart A. Baker told the Washington Post, “The bitter battles over privacy and NSA’s role in domestic wiretapping hang over cybersecurity like a toxic cloud.â€Baker, who served as NSA general counsel during the Clinton administration, also suggested that the Bush administration should be held responsible for creating many of the current problems by trying to keep so much of Einstein 3 secret.“The solution was veiled in secrecy in a way that allowed people outside to be suspicious,†he explained, “so anybody who mistrusted the intelligence community could just assume that it was because they were doing something that they shouldn’t be doing.â€http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/02/nsa-to-monitor-a... /
When some group finally does manage a major cyber attackit will of course be Bu$hCo's fault...
None of this would of ever happened if Al Gore didn't invent the internet.
The funny thing is that they don't think that EVERY KEY they hit on the internet isn't monitored and recorded RIGHT NOW.They are, and they have been for some time.
gee where did FGL go?? I miss him so much!
Trust me, sir, you've been missed here for a couple of days.The illumination and enlightenment here gets a tad bit dimmer when you're off to wherever you're off to.
