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N.S.A. Leaks Make Plan for Cyberdefense Unlikely
- w_t_payne 13y agoI can see the attractiveness of doing malware & spam scanning "on the wire" -- but I fail to see what the NSA can bring to the party that cannot already be provided by commercial antivirus/antimalware companies?
- w_t_payne 13y agoThis seems consistent with the NSA's unrelenting "gotta collect it all" power grab.
- mtgx 13y agoCyber "defense"? What a joke. NSA's cyber/hacking programs and the US Cyber Command of which it's in charge of, have always been about offense, and they will continue to be for the most part. NSA is all about finding exploits and exploiting them, not patching them up. The idea that NSA could "protect" the Internet by having complete access to it is a very flawed one, but I'm sure it could be something NSA could believe strongly: "Just give us more billions of dollars - we're the only ones who can fix the Internet".