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What the current administration is doing is incredibly dangerous. It's starting to conflate the espionage policy with the "cyber security" one, as if they were

What the current administration is doing is incredibly dangerous. It's starting to conflate the espionage policy with the "cyber security" one, as if they were one and the same thing. Therefore it ends up asking companies for stuff like more access to people's data and backdoors in encryption or in operating systems. Why? Because that's what's needed for espionage, but not if you are actually serious about "cybersecurity". In fact, any cybersecurity policy should pretty much be the opposite of an espionage policy.

dragonwriter 12y ago
> What the current administration is doing is incredibly dangerous. It's starting to conflate the espionage policy with the "cyber security" one, as if they were one and the same thing. That conflation is as old as the assignment of both cybersecurity and intelligence functions to the NSA, and predates this administration. It is inaccurate to say this administration is starting to conflate those two things, though its perhaps furthering the long-standing conflation.
diminoten 12y ago
What does this have to do with espionage at all? Where do you get this idea that this is related to people's data at all? I get the sense you don't know what cyber threat intelligence is, which is fine, but I recommend learning a little bit more.
- beauzero 12y ago
  Then why is this an issue? http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/02/11/256304/government-wonders-whats-in-your.html http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/02/11/256304/government-wond...
  - diminoten 12y ago
    That's completely unrelated to cyber threat intelligence, except in situations like spear phishing, where the government (or anyone else trying to protect against attacks) might want to know what domains the attempts originated from or where the malicious links point back to. Your linked article is completely irrelevant to this conversation. Why do you think they're related? Because the government is involved in both, and both have to do with the Internet? You do realize the Internet is a big place, yes?

dragonwriter 12y ago

> What the current administration is doing is incredibly dangerous. It's starting to conflate the espionage policy with the "cyber security" one, as if they were one and the same thing. That conflation is as old as the assignment of both cybersecurity and intelligence functions to the NSA, and predates this administration. It is inaccurate to say this administration is starting to conflate those two things, though its perhaps furthering the long-standing conflation.

diminoten 12y ago

What does this have to do with espionage at all? Where do you get this idea that this is related to people's data at all? I get the sense you don't know what cyber threat intelligence is, which is fine, but I recommend learning a little bit more.

beauzero 12y ago
Then why is this an issue? http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/02/11/256304/government-wonders-whats-in-your.html http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/02/11/256304/government-wond...
- diminoten 12y ago
  That's completely unrelated to cyber threat intelligence, except in situations like spear phishing, where the government (or anyone else trying to protect against attacks) might want to know what domains the attempts originated from or where the malicious links point back to. Your linked article is completely irrelevant to this conversation. Why do you think they're related? Because the government is involved in both, and both have to do with the Internet? You do realize the Internet is a big place, yes?