Why the NSA's attacks on the internet must be made public

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... e-schneier


"The NSA not only develops and purchases vulnerabilities, but deliberately creates them through secret vendor agreements. Photograph: Felix Clay
Today, the Guardian is reporting on how the NSA targets Tor users, along with details of how it uses centrally placed servers on the internet to attack individual computers. This builds on a Brazilian news story from last week that, in part, shows that the NSA is impersonating Google servers to users; a German story on how the NSA is hacking into smartphones; and a Guardian story from two weeks ago on how the NSA is deliberately weakening common security algorithms, protocols, and products.

The common thread among these stories is that the NSA is subverting the internet and turning it into a massive surveillance tool. The NSA's actions are making us all less safe, because its eavesdropping mission is degrading its ability to protect the US."...

Hardware backdoors and encryption key backdoors via secret vendor agreements? What could possibly go wrong here? LOL Lots of chips and software is made offshore. Sooner or later these leak out to the bad guys. Same as Stuxnet. I guess it's now the bad guys vs. the really really bad guys. Where are the good guys?

Disclaimer: Mr. NSA[bot] computer guy reading this, just a loyal patriotic obedient tax paying servant here, no need to worry. Thanks. :memorial:

But people don't care about this, I thought we settled that a month or two ago by bringing up Syria for a few weeks. Luckily the Debt limit stuff solved the Syria Crisis. Now we just have to wait to see what they come up with the solve the debt/budget crisis.

Worrying about spying is so two news cycles ago?

Now can we get back to borrowing money that I don't have to pay back so I can have more stuff....