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So can you tell me how has NSA protected you? What has it done?
by brokenmusic 13y ago
So can you tell me how has NSA protected you? What has it done?
- jaekwon 13y agoThe NSA should be about protecting privacy & communications infrastructure by hardening crypto security. Don't they do some of this already? I just think this is what they should be focusing on, rather than gathering data.
- brokenmusic 13y agoWhen people say "but government is supposed to do that" it sounds almost like a religious belief. Just because the holy book - in this case, the constitution - says so, it doesn't mean it is so. It also doesn't mean we should somehow fix the government. When a religious person complains his priest is not praying hard enough for him that's why he's not doing so good, the solution is NOT to find a better priest. But a less abstract reply to your comment should be this: what does protecting privacy and communication mean in the case of NSA doing it, how is it done specifically and why does it make you safer?
- hackinthebochs 13y agoListening into communications between known terrorists is legitimate. I'm sure this function has "protected" me in some abstract sense.
- jshen 13y agoIt tries to prevent terrorism before it happens. I don't expect it to give us a detailed breakdown of its activities toward this end. What I expect is for there to be good checks and balances along with consequences for the bad actors when abuses happen. They have not done a great job on those fronts, but the agencies existence and mission is not a problem by itself.