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Thank Goodness For the NSA — A Fable

Posted by timothy on from the it's-canadian-opposite-day dept.

davecb writes "Slaw was kind enough to post my fable on how to not have a problem with the NSA, Thank Goodness for the NSA, and a link to the more technical MAC paper. My challenge to the Slashdot community: what's the first big step to making this all come true?"

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  1. Re:Blocked at work by crashcy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    E. Nothing to do with the NSA, and not a fable. His company's security sucked, they got hacked, the improved their security. That's TFA.

  2. Thank Edward Snowden by Chalnoth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thank the person that brought these security breaches to light, not the people who have been illegally performing them.

  3. Re:misleading title by return+42 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it's more like, thank goodness $POWERFUL_PERVASIVE_SECURITY_THREAT made everyone realize their security was worse than crap, because otherwise they would never have gone to all the trouble of fixing it. Plus various suggestions for how to fix this state of affairs.

    He seems unaware of the issues with compromised hardware, which will require either a political solution or a whole lot more work than software solutions, but as a call to action, it has some merit.