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I'll be honest and say that I'm a bit mentally exhausted from the NSA stories, but I think it's really healthy that they stay in the news so that people don't f

• MBCook 13y ago
  > I'll be honest and say that I'm a bit mentally exhausted from the NSA stories This is my problem. It's fine to cover the NSA, but I'm tired of seeing 5 stories a day. Worse it's usually the same story discussed from 4 different outlets, so it's not even new information. I'm also exhausted with NSA comments. I know they're out there, but I feel like the almost reactionary sounding 'but the NSA can see the cloud' or 'Apple may be working with the NSA' comments are drowning out real discussion on security issues. 'I've come up with a new way to manage bandwith' You're probably helping the NSA 'New cryptography scheme is more secure than SSL' Except it's probably backdoored by the NSA 'How to use Puppet to setup 1000 servers' The NSA can watch for your master passwords! At this point most of it doesn't feel like discussion, but simple noise. That's generally the sign that things have been over-discussed and need a little cool down time. It's an important topic, but it shouldn't be only one. I would have liked to be able to read some nice analysis of Apple's new fingerprint sensor without 2/3rs of the discussion being about if they are stealing your fingerprints for the government. Maybe just 1/4.
  • jack-r-abbit 13y ago
    Ya. "Bringing up the NSA" is the new "bringing up Nazis". Damn it... now I've done it. My bad.