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NSA Tasked With 'Policing' Government Networks
Novus Ordo Seclorum writes "The NSA has a new assignment. No longer merely responsible for signals intelligence, the NSA now has the task of defending against cyber attacks on government and private networks. 'The plan calls for the NSA to work with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to monitor such networks to prevent unauthorized intrusion, according to those with knowledge of what is known internally as the 'Cyber Initiative.' Details of the project are highly classified. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, a former NSA chief, is coordinating the initiative. It will be run by the Department of Homeland Security, which has primary responsibility for protecting domestic infrastructure, including the Internet, current and former officials said. At the outset, up to 2,000 people -- from the Department of Homeland Security, the NSA and other agencies -- could be assigned to the initiative, said a senior intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity.'"
... Details of the project are highly classified. But not secret enough to issue a press release about it?Take Nobody's Word For It.
2008 PRNewsWire - Today Symantec and the NSA announce a merger. The NSA will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Symantec Corp. In exchange, Symantec will issue 100,000 shares of common stock to each member of Congress.
Coming soon to a network near you - NortonNSA!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
I'm sure they will be just as competent as the TSA. Every packet will be strip-searched, cavity-probed, and required to drink its own breast milk. All packets will have to take their shoes off. And all packets named Ted Kennedy will be put on a "No Fly" - oops I mean "No Route" - list. All in the name of protecting the purity of your ones and zeros. We don't want any Muslim data sullying our clean Baptist data bits.