If you'll notice that both political parties have expanded on the NSA's mission, scope, and probably funding. I doubt there are any business motives here. In fact, it seems to me there are the exact opposite. Though, since much of government is now contracted out, I do wonder who this was billed out to? Also sorta interesting that the possibility of the NSA contracting a French company (Vupen) to find exploits. I always assumed HP, Rapid7, Mandiant, etc would do this type of thing and that it would be easier to clear companies in the US.
coderman <coder...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Ralph Holz <h...@net.in.tum.de> wrote: >> Hi Jake, >> >> Ian Grigg just made a point on metzdowd that I think is true: if you >> want to change the NSA, you need to address the [...] >> [... money] Because the chain goes like this: >> >> corporate money -> election campaigns -> representatives -> NSA > > >it should be noted that corporate money influence is currently aimed >at privacy eroding efforts in myriad manner. > > >you need to change the incentive to result in a privacy enhancing >impetus like this: > corporate money -> election campaigns -> representatives -> >defunding much NSA/CIA/DoD actvity. > >which is implemented not just in US, but all reasonable governments, >at the same time privacy aware corporations are implementing privacy >enhancing operations and software. this can be as simple as HTTPS only >with forward secret suites, or as significant as desired. > > >in other words: it's even more difficult! an effective response >requires cooperation of most governments and international corporate >entities. > > >there are tens and tens of billions that could be trimmed from the >black budget and DoD budget while preserving a minimal, defensive >force and command, allowing for targeted, HUMINT focused operations to >replace all wholesale and endemic COMSEC vulnerability exploiting >efforts. > > >good luck finding the incentive of sufficient force, and defending >against the significant pushback! > > >best regards, >_______________________________________________ >cryptography mailing list >cryptography@randombit.net >http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
