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Snowden reveals automated NSA cyberwarfare program
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| 8-13-2014
| Grant Gross (IDG News Service)
Posted on 08/13/2014 10:36:36 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The NSA cyberwarfare program, called MonsterMind, uses software to look for traffic patterns indicating possible foreign cyberattacks, according to Snowden, quoted in a lengthy profile in Wired.
MonsterMind could automatically block a cyberattack from entering the U.S., then retaliate against the attackers, according to the Wired story.
Snowden, when he was working as an NSA contractor, was concerned that MonsterMind could lead to misdirected counterattacks. "These attacks can be spoofed," he told Wired. "You could have someone sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one of these attacks is originating in Russia. And then we end up shooting back at a Russian hospital. What happens next?"
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com.au ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: cyberattack; cyberattacks; cyberwarfare; edwardsnowden; monstermind; nsa; nsascandals; skynet; snowden
Which one is Skynet?
To: Citizen Zed
What happens next? Dang. They could break the internet.
To: Citizen Zed
The real motives of Snowden are showing through. This has nothing to do with the privacy of US citizens. This is just flat-out treason.
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posted on
08/13/2014 10:38:49 AM PDT
by
Scutter
To: Citizen Zed
or if for example someone spoofed an attack coming from my house.....
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posted on
08/13/2014 10:45:30 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
To: MeshugeMikey
Snowden, when he was working as an NSA contractor, was concerned that MonsterMind could lead to misdirected counterattacks. "These attacks can be spoofed," he told Wired. "You could have someone sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one of these attacks is originating in Russia. And then we end up shooting back at a Russian hospital. What happens next?"
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posted on
08/13/2014 10:47:47 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: Citizen Zed
He really needs to keep the focus on how da gummint is spying on Americans.
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posted on
08/13/2014 10:49:24 AM PDT
by
gaijin
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
08/13/2014 10:50:00 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Citizen Zed
MonsterMind also creates privacy problems, because it would have to access nearly all the communications coming into the U.S. in order to work, Snowden told Wired. "If we're analyzing all traffic flows, that means we have to be intercepting all traffic flows," he said. "That means violating the Fourth Amendment, seizing private communications without a warrant, without probable cause or even a suspicion of wrongdoing. For everyone, all the time." I don't think that reading the content of people's emails is going to stop a cyber attack. OTOH grabbing all the traffic to look for a couple packets that are part of an attack are yet another pointless needle-in-haystack searches. We should not be intercepting traffic, not because it invades privacy, but because needle-in-haystack searches do not work.
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posted on
08/13/2014 10:55:41 AM PDT
by
palmer
(This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
To: GeronL
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posted on
08/13/2014 11:03:22 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
To: gaijin
>> He really needs to keep the focus on how da gummint is spying on Americans <<
Indeed. Otherwise, he might make the Snowden-lovers and Putin-lovers on FR look bad!
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08/13/2014 11:15:02 AM PDT
by
Hawthorn
To: Citizen Zed; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
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posted on
08/13/2014 6:28:55 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/13/2014 7:52:49 PM PDT
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Nifster
To: null and void
I love that movie!
There should have been a sequel.
There still can be, since Eric Braeden (Forbin) is still living. and working on Young & the Restless.................
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posted on
08/14/2014 6:50:51 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: null and void
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08/14/2014 6:55:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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