Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio...
by Dylan16807 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:00AM
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Let's start with an easy step. Only intercept the communications of identified targets, not the masses. There, 7 billion people get the ability to speak freely. A solid start. That's without needing to stop any of the first 6 things you listed. The seventh one is a bit vague, detect via what method? Don't do it by tapping all the ISPs.
Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio...
by dredmorbius on Monday March 13, 2017 @07:48PM
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Generally: false equivalence, excluded middle.
Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio...
by willstrafach on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:07PM
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I do not understand. The question was:
> Can you elaborate on what you specifically take issue with?
Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio...
by dredmorbius on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @09:32AM
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And I'm responding specifically to that response.
- Should NGA not use imaging satellites to keep track of national disasters and environmental issues?
- Should NGA not use imaging satellites for nuclear non-proliferation monitoring?
- Should DoD not have digital sensors at the egress points of their networks to gather information on attacks by foreign actors?
- Should NSA not monitor the communications of foreign adversaries to determine their intentions on the battlefield?
- Should NSA not investigate adversarial nations launching attacks and information-gathering operations against DoD infrastructure as well as US private industry?
- Should our military intelligence branches not monitor weapons development of adversarial nations (using ELINT measurements, imaging satellites, along with other forms of intelligence gathering to determine their offensive/defensive capabilities)
- Should we not use SIGINT sensors and capabilities to detect an incoming attack on the USA or an ally?
- I can add a whole lot more to this list if interested.
The act of "spying" is far more than just SIGINT collection and processing of internet data. Can you elaborate on what you specifically take issue with? Do you take issue with all intelligence collection as a whole, or specifically SIGINT collection, or more specifically SIGINT collection of internet data or phone records? I am curious and like to keep an open mind about these things, so am being genuine when I ask this.