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NSA Targeting Domestic Computer Systems

Posted by timothy on from the domestic-abuse dept.

The NSA was originally supposed to handle foreign intelligence, and leave the domestic spying to other agencies, but Presto Vivace writes with this bit from CNET: "'The National Security Agency's Perfect Citizen program hunts for vulnerabilities in 'large-scale' utilities, including power grid and gas pipeline controllers, new documents from EPIC show.' 'Perfect Citizen?' Who thinks up these names?" "The program is scheduled to continue through at least September 2014," says the article.

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  1. Re:Imperfect citizens by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe that "Perfect Citizen" is the English version of the Russian "novy sovetsky chelovek".

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    Ezekiel 23:20