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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists
The cyberscare, like the redscare or the greenscare of the 90′s, is already under way. Weve seen it take root with the fierce federal persecution of Aaron Swartz, the hefty charges and prison sentence facing LulzSec hacktivist Jeremy Hammond and the three-year jail sentence handed down to Andrew Weev Auernheimer for pointing out and sharing a vulnerability in AT&Ts user information network. On Tuesday, former NSA chief Michael Hayden put it into words.Hayden warned that hackers, cyberactivists and transparency groups who might act in support of NSA leaker Edward Snowden could target the U.S. government equating such groups and individuals to al-Qaida terrorists. Using trite and old-fashioned descriptions of anarchists and hackers as dangerous loners, Hayden said during a Washington speech Tuesday (as the Guardian reported):
If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do? said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran theNSA and then the CIA, referring to nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who havent talked to the opposite sex in five or six years.
They may want to come after the US government, but frankly, you know, the dot-mil stuff is about the hardest target in the United States, Hayden said, using a shorthand for US military networks. So if they cant create great harm to dot-mil, who are they going after? Who for them are the World Trade Centers? The World Trade Centers, as they were for al-Qaida.
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/06/cyberscare_ex_nsa_chief_calls_transparency_groups_hackers_next_terrorists/
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Cyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists (Original Post)
morningfog
Aug 2013
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Rex
(65,616 posts)1. Hayden is a bozo the clown type character.
A Bush failure holdover.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)2. Nihilists?
I KNEW I shouldn't have checked Nietzsche out of the high school library. That's on my permanent record!
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)3. Brownie? Is that you?
So tired of nitwits in high places.