The idea that an intelligence agency has been subverting security applications should not be a shock to anyone. What bothers me is my perception that safeguards and processes to protect Joe Citizen within the Intelligence Community are being ignored or subverted.
It is an incredible dilemna. As a patriot, I want the NSA to be able to crack into any system. But I also worry about abuse. Who watches the Watchers?
I'm a citizen and don't want them breaking into any of MY systems. They have no business in there.
Your brand of “patriotism” would be well received in Cuba or Venezuela.
I'm glad I'm not your kind of patriot. I don't want them ever to be able to break into my secure communications. I don't trust them (the NSA) any further than I trust any country's security apparatus.
“As a patriot, I want the NSA to be able to crack into any system. “
Patriots support their government when it is correct and their country all the time.
In this case, NSA - at the direction of the governmnet - is subverting Constitutional Rights without cause.
I do not support their massive espionage against Americans. It is exactly like the STASI on steroids.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
By definition, if you create a security system with a "back door" that security system is not secure. If the NSA can open the back door, so can other hackers. RSA has created a Potemkin Village security system.
Perhaps it is time to do some more reading on the ‘writs of assistance’ and the 4th amendment. The broad and illegal search was this sort of illegal behavior that sparked the Revolutionary war.
Don’t let your sense of Patriotism color your good sense. The folks at NSA know, or should know, that a corrupted system is no good to anybody. If I were up to no good or even doing things that required absolutely reliable comm. I would run at least a double system-—one that was full of plausible but eroneous krap and one other completely independent one for the real stuff. Going back as far as WW II our military radio guys learned to keep up a continuous volume of meaningless gibberish so that traffic for real events wouldn’t be noticed in the volume. If you only send out a message when you have something important to say then it is much easier for a “listener” to analyze it. If you paid a lot of money for SOMEBODY ELSES encription system you probably got took.
I always thot RSA was a scam, looks like I was right, and I hope they get their hip pockets sued off and go to that big flush toilet in the sky.
“Who watches the Watchers? “
S/B the courts, but we all know they’re on the other side as well. In the case of RSA, I hope that they are sued into bankruptcy!