At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy

Re:At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy by ForHackernews on Saturday March 01, 2014 @02:17PM (#7325667)

> American officials were quick to rebut the idea that foreign data would be more secure outside American borders. “There’s a big call for data localization,” said Richard A. Clarke, the former United States counterterrorism czar. He pointed to the announcement this week between the European Union and Brazil that they would run a new undersea fiber-optic cable between Brazil and Portugal to thwart American spying.

> “First of all, who doesn’t think the U.S. can’t listen in?” Mr. Clarke said. “Could it possibly be that these countries are trying to take business away from U.S. carriers?”

Anyone want to try and parse the double-negatives here? "who doesn’t think the U.S. can’t listen in?"

So he's saying, "It's not worth building your own networks, because we'll just tap those too?" Is that the official US government position now?

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Re:At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy by dsuth on Saturday March 01, 2014 @04:54PM (#7326310)

I guess that would technically mean "Who thinks the US can listen in?", which would mean that he's attempting to downplay the possibility that the US tapping things is a relevant concern, and all these international competitors are just using the NSA as a convenient scapegoat, to drum up business.

Which actually makes sense when you consider that he's part of the machine, and just toeing the party line.

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