{"id":11860,"date":"2008-01-17T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/01\/17\/security-and-privacy.html"},"modified":"2008-01-17T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:04:45","slug":"security_and_privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/security_and_privacy.html","title":{"rendered":"Security and Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les passes on<\/a> this little gem:<\/p>\n

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US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all \u2018Net traffic – ArsTechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n

While short on specifics, the New Yorker piece recognizes that any plan requiring the kind of authority McConnell envisions is apt to be a hard sell: \u201cAmericans will have to trust the government not to abuse the authority it must have in order to protect our networks, and yet, historically the government has not proved worthy of that trust.\u201d McConnell acknowledges that his initiative is bound to spark debate that will make recent wrangling over reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act seem like \u201ca walk in the park compared to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ya think?  McConnell himself admits the government “has not proved worthy of that trust” in the past, but now we’re supposed to give it?  Why?<\/p>\n

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How broad are the powers needed to keep our servers safe? According to the article, in order for cyberspace to be policed, Internet activity will have to be closely monitored. Ed Giorgio, who is working with McConnell on the plan, said that would mean giving the government the authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer, or Web search.<\/b> \u201cGoogle has records that could help in a cyber-investigation,\u201d he said. Giorgio warned me, \u201cWe have a saying in this business: \u2018Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, in order to police the real <\/em>world against criminals and terrorists, it is essential that the government have the authority to examine the content of your pockets, person, house, car, or body at any time they want.  After all, privacy and security are “a zero-sum game.”<\/p>\n

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Sayings like that, says security guru Bruce Schneier, \u201care why the police aren\u2019t in charge; security and privacy are complimentary. Privacy is part of our security against government abuse. If they were really zero-sum, we would have seen mass immigration into East Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Folks keep these sorts of proposals up, we won’t have to mass migrate anywhere for that sort of “protection.”<\/p>\n

I do realize there are differences between the virtual and real worlds.  But there are a lot of similarities, too, and taking the “easy” approach of just letting the cybercops pat us down whenever we take a virtual walk is both lazy and dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Les passes on this little gem: US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all \u2018Net traffic – ArsTechnica.com While short on specifics, the New Yorker piece recognizes that any…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137335,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/17\/a-vote-for-the-gop-is-a-vote-for-cutting-social-security-medicare-and-medicaid.html","url_meta":{"origin":11860,"position":0},"title":"A vote for the GOP is a vote for cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Oct-18 10:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Having massively ratcheted up the federal budget deficit by passing a tax cut with $1 trillion in revenue reductions over the next decade, and then jacking up military spending by a significant amount at the same time, Senate Majority Leader McConnell makes it clear that, nope, the real cause of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28304,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/mitch-mcconnell-is-a-dolt-expensive-free-speech-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":11860,"position":1},"title":"Mitch McConnell Is a Dolt (Expensive Free Speech Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Jun-12 11:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So let's be clear -- this particular article came up in Newsmax, which is one of the zanier right-wing \"news\" sites out there. \u00a0It's sort of like WorldNetDaily, only less pervasively religious. 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