Re: [liberationtech] NSA Director Alexander @ Senate Appropriations Committee (Jun 12)

2013-06-17 Thread Charles Zeitler
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Gregory Foster gfos...@entersection.org wrote: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations (Jun 12) - Hearing on Cybersecurity: http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/ht-full.cfm?method=hearings.viewid=33dda6f9-5d83-409d-a8c5-7ada84b0c598 1) we do it for you! 2)

Re: [liberationtech] NSA Director Alexander @ Senate Appropriations Committee (Jun 12)

2013-06-13 Thread David Golumbia
readers of this list may find interesting a brief analysis I've just posted of the discrepancies between General Alexander's testimony and media coverage of it--from the actual testimony it appears he did not mean to be claiming that dozens of terrorists attacks were prevented via collection of

Re: [liberationtech] NSA Director Alexander @ Senate Appropriations Committee (Jun 12)

2013-06-13 Thread Richard Brooks
Reminds me of a recent comment from someone I was training: Government information should be public. Personal information should be private. Unfortunately, we have it backwards. On 06/13/2013 12:10 PM, Kyle Maxwell wrote: Thanks for this. His comments on Guarding Privacy and Civil Liberties

[liberationtech] NSA Director Alexander @ Senate Appropriations Committee (Jun 12)

2013-06-12 Thread Gregory Foster
U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations (Jun 12) - Hearing on Cybersecurity: http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/ht-full.cfm?method=hearings.viewid=33dda6f9-5d83-409d-a8c5-7ada84b0c598 Complete video of the hearing and prepared testimony of each of the witnesses is linked here. This