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CNET News - CNET News - Snowden: Mass surveillance doesn't work, encryption does

2014-03-10
then anyone else when every attack succeeds when you are the country the one country immortal who got a sort of a vault that's more full than anyone elses it doesn't make any sense for you to be attacking all day and never defend in your football and it makes even less sense well when you that standards for vault worldwide to have a big factor than anybody can walk in we've actually had tremendous intelligence failures because we're monitoring the enemy or monitoring you know everybody's communications instead of suspects communications and that lack of focus has caused us to miss means that we should have had Tamerlan sunny of the Boston bombers the Russians have moved us about it but we did a very poor at have a resources we had people looking at other things and if we hadn't spent so much of Master pounds if we follow the traditional models we might have caught that we marvel abdallah the underwear bomber same thing his five walked into a u.s. embassy he went to a CIA officer he said my son is dangerous don't let him go to your country get him help we didn't follow up we didn't actually investigate this guy we didn't they dedicate a team to figure out what was going on because we spent all this money you spent all this time hacking into Google and Facebook's back to look at their database their data center community what did we get up we got nothing and two white house investigations are confirmed is that encryption does work we need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane black art what sort of a basic protection it's the defense against the dark arts for the digital world and this is a this is something we all need to be not not only implemented but actively researching improving on the academic one sort of that the grad students of today and tomorrow need to keep today's threaten online to inform tomorrow the United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into a good person into my work with the journalists and they still have no idea you know what what documents were provided to the journalists what they have but they don't have because encryption would if we don't resolve these issues if we allow the NSA to continue unrestrained every other government the international community will accept X where's the green light to do the same and that's not
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