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Could this problem be fixed by splitting the NSA into two competing agencies, one handling offensive signals intelligence, and one handling cryptography researc
by redahs 10y ago
Could this problem be fixed by splitting the NSA into two competing agencies, one handling offensive signals intelligence, and one handling cryptography research and disclosures?
Intuitively it seems when the same agency performs both roles it creates a conflict of interest and bias against disclosure.
- H4CK3RM4N 10y agoBut then your second branch ends up looking(to the government at least) a lot like a research program instead of anything meaningful in terms of intelligence.
- madez 10y agoResearch can be counter-intelligence, and thus intelligence.
- pstuart 10y agoHow about a third agency that focuses on securing our digital infrastructure?
- labster 10y agoThen we'd need a fourth agency to coordinate between them, and don't forget the fifth agency in charge of oversight.
- EGreg 10y agoSounds good to me
- kahnpro 10y agoAnd don't forget to give all the money and power to the offensive agency, while keeping the oversight agency to an intern in a broom closet somewhere.
- Mz 10y agoI actually approve of your plans to keep the oversight agency really minimal. That government is best which governs least.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoHow about NSA just does this, per its name, and the offensive signals intelligence gets handled by the CIA?
- willstrafach 10y agoCIA is primarily HUMINT (and intel triage, covert operations, etc) so their focus is going to be on the end points for individual targets. SIGINT is a gigantic field and a shift like this would essentially just a merger of NSA's SID into CIA while leaving NSA with just IAD. Genuinely curious, what would be the gain in doing that?