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In reply to the discussion: NSA Chief General Kieth Alexander and "The Secret War" [View all]Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)7. This is absolutely, without a doubt, Orwellian, Outrageous, and Alarming!
Alexander runs the nations cyberwar efforts, an empire he has built over the past eight years by insisting that the USs inherent vulnerability to digital attacks requires him to amass more and more authority over the data zipping around the globe. In his telling, the threat is so mind-bogglingly huge that the nation has little option but to eventually put the entire civilian Internet under his protection, requiring tweets and emails to pass through his filters, and putting the kill switch under the governments forefinger. What we see is an increasing level of activity on the networks, he said at a recent security conference in Canada. I am concerned that this is going to break a threshold where the private sector can no longer handle it and the government is going to have to step in.
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Devastatingly scary.
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This is absolutely, without a doubt, Orwellian, Outrageous, and Alarming!
Fantastic Anarchist
Jun 2013
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