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Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished

Posted by timothy on from the well-if-you'd-like-my-opinion-gentleman dept.

First time accepted submitter MetalliQaZ writes "Last week, Dr. Joseph Bonneau learned that he had won the NSA's first annual "Science of Security (SoS) Competition." The competition, which aims to honor the best 'scientific papers about national security' as a way to strengthen NSA collaboration with researchers in academia, honored Bonneau for his paper on the nature of passwords. And how did Bonneau respond to being honored by the NSA? By expressing, in an honest and bittersweet blog post, his revulsion at what the NSA has become: 'Simply put, I don't think a free society is compatible with an organisation like the NSA in its current form.'"

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  1. Bonneau's paper by hobarrera · · Score: 4, Informative

    The paper in question is available here in case anybody is interested why the NSA granted him the award.

  2. Re:Don't forget by thaylin · · Score: 4, Informative
    You have no clue the difference do you?

    1.Google first is not spying on you. Partly because you actually know what they are doing, and spying requires secrecy, and google will tell you what they are doing.

    2. Google cannot ruin your life like the NSA can.

    3. You have no idea who collects more data.

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    When you cant win, ad hominem.
  3. I call NSA slashtroturfing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    As per the congressional investigations into what we knew before Pearl Harbor -- and as per records in any public library before the 2001 reclassification act, AND testified to by the fact that some of the volumes and some of the pages are new, AND also to be confirmed by librarians that the substitutions did occur, followed by a failed lawsuit...

    the US government, including the president, KNEW when, what, and where on Pearl Harbor ahead of time, but the president of the United States wanted to pressure Americans into accepting the war.

    I call BS on your post, and further I call NSA slashtroturfing.

    As of this point, NSA reclassification is being used against US citizens, for the benefit of the NSA.

  4. Re:too much (underlying) left-wing bias for my tas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    IRS scandal? Did you even read how that ended up?
    http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/there-was-never-any-irs-scandal-after-all/

  5. Re:Politicians .... by ak3ldama · · Score: 5, Informative
    And from an article with Wyden, Obama's innaction:

    But although President Obama agreed with Wyden that FISA Court opinions needed to be made public in 2009, not one single opinion has been published since then, and the surveillance state has only grown larger.

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    "but money is the God of Algiers & Mahomet their prophet." - Rich. O'Bryen June 8th 1786
  6. Re:Don't forget by sjames · · Score: 5, Informative

    4. Google doesn't spend your tax dollars tracking you.

    5. You can tell Google to buzz off if you want.

  7. Re: Don't forget by Phizital1ty · · Score: 5, Informative

    One word, Shadow Profiles http://m.digitaltrends.com/social-media/what-exactly-is-a-facebook-shadow-profile/