06.18.13

Zero oversight

Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Cyberterrorism at 7:52 am by George Smith

This is what we have. And Xerocrypt blog encapsulates it in a way anyone can understand. It’s the abrogation of interest in checks and balances, or the taking of any responsibility in maintaining them.

Excerpted:

Given the number of employees at the NSA with far more integrity, ethics and intelligence than our politicians, and there’s at least 100,000 people in the United States with Top Secret clearance, it was simply unrealistic to expect this level of surveillance against the American people could be kept a secret indefinitely, just as it’s unrealistic to expect them to safeguard the US without some means of intercepting communications. From what I’ve seen trawling the blogs, the INFOSEC community appears to be in general agreement with the actions of Edward Snowden. A surveillance state, like the one we’ve been drifting towards for the last decade, ultimately does more to undermine a nation’s security and facilitate organised crime. Last week’s events provided just one example of why.

Much of this was our own fault, in not taking an interest in all the privacy-invading laws that were being passed over the years, in handing over so much of our personal information to the major Internet giants when common sense told us it was being turned over to God knows who, in brushing away legitimate worries with the tired and long disproven ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ statement.

Read all of it.

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