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