NSA Director, Congress and Monitoring

Thanks to Bruce Schneier for pointing out the testimony from NSA Director Michael Hayden, in which he talks about how the NSA worked pre-9/11 and post. And, as Bruce pointed out "...[he] tells Congress that they can best help him by going back to their constituents and finding out where the public wants to draw the line between liberty and safety."

Comments

They should be concerned about China

[Jack Wagner]

Most respected IT professionals will state in private that they are hindered by their über vendor lock-in to the Microsoft Windows operating system and its draconian EULA. I don't have to point out to you that the software that runs these Fortune 500 companies is the backbone that holds American together. By making the move to Gnu/RedHat which is a non oppressive backbone, the Chineese government has jumped by leaps and bounds ahead in the race for global control.

I did some consulting work for the current Chinese regime and I can tell you with great certainty that the anti-American Zeitgiest is in full force and they have actually started a new political party, the GNU party, (inspired by the GNU software license) which claims to be for all things anti-American and pro socialism. The membership growth of the GNU party is Olog(n) which is several orders of magnitude higher than the population growth rate. I don't have to tell you what this, coupled with their freedom to innovate with the Linux operating system, means to democracy. The end is near. The paradigm shift should have all American Congressmen shaking in their plush leather chairs right now.

The only hope I see for America is for them to act quickly and make a government wide move to freeBSD or openBSD. It will surely take the Chinese several months to configure their Linux copmuters (remember, you still have to hand edit the resolv.conf file by hand to get them to work and it's a well known fact that Chinese are not very intelligent) so the US has a couple months before they start to feel the heat from the new Chinese regime. We can still save Democracy if we as a country act now!!

If security matters to the US then they will address this immediatly.