Posted on 03/04/2010 4:51:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
An active Homeland Security program codenamed “Einstein” will receive an upgrade from the help of the NSA. This “help” includes the implementation of technology to read through all of your email contents. Seriously.
It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program declassified Tuesday provides more details of NSA’s role in a Homeland program known as Einstein.
The current version of the program is widely seen as providing meager protection against attack, but a new version being built will be more robust–largely because it’s rooted in NSA technology. The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary.
While the Obama Administration claims it will strip out all identifying information from the email communications, the plan also includes passing along data to the NSA.
(Excerpt) Read more at amerpundit.com ...
Its for our own good. /s
...hmmm
Hey 0bama, read this:
FUBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ping
I wonder if the Democrats who tore up Bush for accessing their library card care. Or is it OK with them since it’s their tyrant doing the reading?
There is always email encryption ...
Sieg Heil, comrade.
Ping
what would happen if every good American put a bunch of arbitrary watched keywords in a canned message at the bottom of their emails?
Would that shut the NSA/CIA/FBI/HSA servers down?
HA if George Bush did this the talking heads would be going nutzzzzz tonight
I used to work for the NSA.
But if this were true, I don’t see those lunatic Marxists marching about it. I guess privacy is out the window if it keeps Der Fuhrer in power.
log the websites you visit
track your cell phone
read your email
where so get an encryption system for our email??
He can read mine if he likes to hear what a jackass he is.
Come on in Obozo, join the fun!
"This is pretty much a more extreme version of domestic spying than the program Democrats screamed their head off over during the Bush Administration. Look for them to defend this invasion of privacy now that it’s coming from a liberal president"
Called PinWale still in operation..[The NSA] appears to have tolerated significant collection and examination of domestic e-mail messages without warrants, according to the former analyst, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. He said he and other analysts were trained to use a secret database, code-named Pinwale, in 2005 that archived foreign and domestic e-mail messages. He said Pinwale allowed N.S.A. analysts to read large volumes of e-mail messages to and from Americans as long as they fell within certain limits — no more than 30 percent of any database search, he recalled being told — and Americans were not explicitly singled out in the searches--even President Clinton's emails have been and still [?] are being intercepted in bulk and then stored in secret NSA databases, without probable cause.
You mean Obummer the “halfrican” will find out I think he is a flaming a$$hole ?
Let me see — It would definitely overload the system, and likely crash or lock it up starved of resources. The only out would be to shed hits, and if there were enough, it would be fruitless, you could never get through the backlogs. Systems like this are designed to look for needles in a haystack, and read the needles in detail for context, not sort entire haystacks full of bogus hits. If it came to this, you have a very good plan.
I worked there up until 1991, and on different stuff. But there isn’t the man-power to go through all the e-mails. My guess is (if that’s what they’re doing) that they’re using a system that flags key words. I had only heard they did it for terrorists but....who knows.
“There is always email encryption ...”
Yes, I have never resorted to that, but it is common practice in Europe. I am told.
PGP is pretty good, but there are some really secure methods. Nothing more secure than 1-time pad.
I looked Open BSD over 10 years ago when I first started using Linux. It is much more secure than most of my Linux OS’s. Also looked at Free BSD, but could not stomach the Athiest Leftists who put it out. Refused to use it simply because of that.
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