[Citizen Zed]

Which one is Skynet?

[EternalVigilance]

What happens next?

Dang. They could break the internet.

[Scutter]

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.

[MeshugeMikey]

or if for example someone spoofed an attack coming from my house.....

[gaijin]

He really needs to keep the focus on how da gummint is spying on Americans.

[palmer]

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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