N.S.A. Imposes Rules to Protect Secret Data Stored on Its Networks

"'[The new rules] makes our job more difficult,' Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the head of the N.S.A. and the commander of the military’s Cyber Command, told the Aspen Security Forum, an annual meeting on security issues. "

If nothing else this is an excellent demonstration of how leaking information makes it harder to maintain conspiracies.

So back in 2009 they were breaking the law in a myriad ways. Now, they're breaking the law in fewer ways. In the meantime, two things happened:

1) They set up an "internal watchdog" (the effectiveness of that is secret and disputable)

2) They came up with secret laws to make the stuff they were doing anyway legal.

Which of those two do you think had the biggest effect on reducing the amount of illegal stuff they were doing?

I continue to think that government departments that commit crimes should be eliminated by either the judiciary or the legislative branch, illico. There can be no excuse for widespread criminality in government.

Appropriate Judicial Oversight: Too freakin' expensive! Let's just change the law so we don't need it.

>Pentagon’s first units devoted to conducting cyberoffense and -defense operations

>The description of the Pentagon’s new cyberteams

>The administration recently conceded that it was developing cyberweapons.

>Future operations run by Cyber Command

>for now the cyberforce will be drawn from members of the armed services.

>The cyberforces are inexpensive

>other nations that are justifying the creation of their own cyberunits

>Iran has created its own cybercorps

/twitch

The amount of cyber in this article is TOO DAMN HIGH.