{"id":7002,"date":"2014-06-11T06:19:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:24:34","slug":"former-nsa-director-an-attack-is-going-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7002","title":{"rendered":"Former NSA Director: 'An attack is going to come'"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tFormer NSA Director: \u2018An attack is going to come\u2019<\/span><\/a>\nIn the interview\u00a0with General Keith Alexander, they review soundbites regarding “ThinThread” which was discontinued after the wake of 9-11.\u00a0 ThinThread was the NSA’s in-line encryption of surveiled domestic phone calls\u00a0to discount\u00a0non-international\u00a0metadata and phonem algorithms.\nGeneral Alexander\u00a0explains in the interview\u00a0how there is a workflow with checks and balances to ensure domestic spying has legitimate ties to terrorist links.\u00a0 1978’s enactment of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) lays out procedures\u00a0which the\u00a0government must follow for electronic surveillance and physical searches\u00a0of those whom may be\u00a0engaged in espionage or international terrorism.\u00a0 Dedicating resources to covert channels has always been a balancing act between operating within the confines of authorized action versus collection of intelligence which greatly contributes to social network analysis.\nThe “Snowden Revelations” have been a hot topic for the media but are nothing new.\u00a0 It is\u00a0a simple reminder of the American public’s selective amnesia.\nThese same intelligence activities were big news 8 years ago in May of 2006\u00a0when former President Bush nominated General Michael Hayden to direct CIA after General Hayden had headed the NSA from March 1999 to April 2005.\u00a0 At that time, Senators on the Hill began demanding\u00a0service providers like AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth come forward to\u00a0explain their knowledge of secret collection\u00a0for the billions of records in a national call database.\nThe unique fact about FISA is that it does not prohibit the NSA from the mining and analysis of data so long as personally identifiable information like names, SSNs, or addresses are excluded.\nGeneral Alexander defended recent revelations by Snowden and NSA analysts by saying \u201cThere are a series of programs; each of those help us build the picture. And if you start taking some of those off the table, the question is, when does it become too difficult for the analysts to conclude what happened? That’s how 9\/11 occurred.\u201d\nGeneral Curtis LeMay once said “Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you’re not a good soldier.”\nPerhaps those concerned with domestic privacy should consider the limitations of FISA.\n]>\t\t\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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