The fundamental goal, especially in light of the "Russia Hacks" and the pervasive nature of modern hacker warfare, of the NSA should be securing the homeland and the free world.
Why is Anti-Virus a (shudder) Microsoft concern? Or a private concern? It is a NATIONAL and MILITARY concern.
Of course the NSA has only contributed to undermining this with its manipulation of cryptography standards and its unstated goal of total domestic and international data visibility, regardless of civil liberties.
There should be some way to construct a "third party" information security program that isn't owned by say, Intel or Apple, or have direct manipulation for backdoors by, say, the NSA, that is vigorously funded.
I could argue this is an international priority, that international business and non-major powers should have high concern with. It should be receiving a billion(s) dollars a year in funding, chartering multiple groups in competition.
But we can't even get OpenSSH funded, so.... I won't hold my breath.
Strong agree, why aren't we using NSA funds to literally secure networks? Send specialists to important companies that we don't want to get hacked. Instead they pay mathematicians big money to make systems less secure? Bullshit.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 803 ms ] threadThe fundamental goal, especially in light of the "Russia Hacks" and the pervasive nature of modern hacker warfare, of the NSA should be securing the homeland and the free world.
Why is Anti-Virus a (shudder) Microsoft concern? Or a private concern? It is a NATIONAL and MILITARY concern.
Of course the NSA has only contributed to undermining this with its manipulation of cryptography standards and its unstated goal of total domestic and international data visibility, regardless of civil liberties.
There should be some way to construct a "third party" information security program that isn't owned by say, Intel or Apple, or have direct manipulation for backdoors by, say, the NSA, that is vigorously funded.
I could argue this is an international priority, that international business and non-major powers should have high concern with. It should be receiving a billion(s) dollars a year in funding, chartering multiple groups in competition.
But we can't even get OpenSSH funded, so.... I won't hold my breath.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux
meanwhile actual security languishes in obsecurity, only pushed into view on occasion by obsessive types like me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
Computers CAN be made secure, but you have to give up Linux, Windows, etc. to do it.