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The NSA is too busy spying on all Americans [edit: as well as collecting backdoors and keeping OS bugs secret] to fulfill its official duties (one of which is t
by mkempe 9y ago
The NSA is too busy spying on all Americans [edit: as well as collecting backdoors and keeping OS bugs secret] to fulfill its official duties (one of which is to protect U.S. communications networks and information systems).
Edit: all of the above is factual, apart from the evaluation of them being negligent of their responsibilities solely due to being overly busy. And if you reasonably hold that the NSA are failing to perform their duties to help protect US infrastructure from cyber attacks for other reasons than being too busy spying on the American people -- would you like to suggest what such reasons are?
Fact: the NSA records all electronic communications within the USA.
Fact: the NSA collects backdoors, and has bribed US companies to create them.
Fact: the NSA seeks and collects major OS bugs for exploitation.
Fact: the NSA has systematically avoided revealing the above bugs to US manufacturers. If they had done so, as expected according to their charter, the bugs would have been fixed -- and thereby would have been protecting US infrastructure, government systems, companies, and last but not the least, the people.
- diafygi 9y agoYes, I agree with this argument. The intelligence community has consistently valued offensive capabilities over improving our tech defenses. Apparently they think that finding and hoarding exploits gives them an advantage over other state actors. Which really sad and depressing for the American tech sector. Not only do they have foreign state actors trying to hack into their infrastructure, they also know that they're own government won't help by disclosing the holes they hoard (or worse, joining the foreign attackers in exploiting the holes they have found). America has so much to lose and very little gain from exploits. It's so discouraging that the intelligence community is still valuing offense over defense.
- kolinko 9y agoWhat is factual is that NSA is spying on Americans. What is not factual is that this is the thing that prevents it from doing it's other jobs. That's why you are downvoted I think. Unless you have some proof on this activity being a source of NSA'a problems in achieving it's other goals.
- mkempe 9y agoI agree that their failure due to being busy bees is not an established fact, merely a rhetorical device on my part. So, since you think they're not too busy with spying on us, then what do you think accounts for their dereliction of duty?