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I would really like Schneier to promote the idea that all countries need to pool their financial resources together to create a large, well funded organizations
by malandrew 13y ago
I would really like Schneier to promote the idea that all countries need to pool their financial resources together to create a large, well funded organizations that hires more mathematicians of a greater caliber than the NSA.
The NSA was originally tasked with protecting the communications of the United States Government, its People and its Institutions. A large portion of that is encryption research. Now it's doing the opposite, clearly attacking many of those protections for its own means. Organizationally it can no longer be trusted, and we now need a second organization to restore order. Every country in the world that is not the US or the UK has a very real interest in the existence of such an organization. It's both an issue of economics and sovereignty.
It is simply not possible to maintain the sovereignty of your country under the status quo. What's worse is that a country may be losing sovereignty in ways that they are not even aware of.