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NSA's job is to eavesdrop on hostile foreign actors' communications, while not infringing on the privacy of US citizens. AFGSC (formerly Strategic Air Command)
by mLuby 7y ago
NSA's job is to eavesdrop on hostile foreign actors' communications, while not infringing on the privacy of US citizens.
AFGSC (formerly Strategic Air Command)'s job is to provide a credible nuclear deterrent while not losing nukes or irradiating Americans.
Let's imagine if the NSA were in charge of the nukes:
- "Whoops, someone stole a bunch of our nukes. But those were old nukes—we have better nukes now."
- "Whoops, turns out we were nuking American cities. But Congressional oversight committees knew about it."
Seriously, I can't even facepalm hard enough. I guess security is hard—everyone's annoyed with you until there's an attack and then everyone's blaming you for not annoying them more to prevent it.
>These documents provide further evidence that the NSA has consistently been unable to operate the call detail record program within the bounds of the law. -ACLU
>NSA identified additional data integrity and compliance concerns… The issues have been addressed and reported to congressional oversight committees. -NSA spokesperson
- FDSGSG 7y agoThis is a super disingenuous comparison.
- hjek 7y agoI also think that comparison is a bit of a stretch, although those US nuclear facepalm moments do exist[0]. [0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bomb-north-carolina-1961 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bo...
- cf141q5325 7y agoAlso, a list of the nuclear weapons which got lost https://interestingengineering.com/broken-arrows-the-worlds-lost-nuclear-weapons https://interestingengineering.com/broken-arrows-the-worlds-... There is a drove of stories around nuclear weapons, I also enjoyed "Missile doors left open while Air Force nuclear officer slept" with the explanation, that they left it open for the food delivery guy. https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/23/us/air-force-nuclear-silo-doors-opened/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/23/us/air-force-nuclear-silo... John Olivers episode on it is also amazing. https://youtu.be/1Y1ya-yF35g https://youtu.be/1Y1ya-yF35g For a weird one meet one of the masterminds responsible for them: https://youtu.be/1Y1ya-yF35g?t=439 https://youtu.be/1Y1ya-yF35g?t=439
- nocturnial 7y ago>NSA's job is to eavesdrop on hostile foreign actors' communications I'm pretty sure the NSA also eavesdrops on friendly foreign actors. I'm also sure that the friendly foreign actors aren't pleased with it. I don't know why this isn't taken into account in foreign US policy.