Translating President Obama's NSA Reform Promises Into Plain English

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 19, 2014 @06:23AM from the dynamo-of-a-blender-of-an-analogy dept.

sandbagger writes "The cynics at the Register have picked apart Barack Obama's NSA reform promises. As to be expected, there's some good, some deliberate vagueness, talk of 'ticking bomb scenarios' and the politician's favourite 'promises to commit to future reforms'. Basically, it's a fig-leaf to kick the can down the road so the next president has to deal with it. He's promising bulk data will go to a third party so the NSA can't see it. Okay, who is this magical third party?" They don't seem to me nearly cynical enough.

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Re:If you like it by YumoolaJohn · 2014-01-19 06:47 · Score: 5, Interesting

It's one thing if you were preventing terrorist attacks left and right and could make a utility argument
No, it's not. Freedom is more important than safety. The people who are focused on the question of whether or not these programs stop terrorists are missing the point entirely.