[Cryptography] An NSA mathematician shares his from-the-trenches view of the agency's surveillance activities
John Gilmore
gnu at toad.com
Tue Sep 17 20:01:33 EDT 2013
Techdirt takes apart his statement here:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130917/02391824549/nsa-needs-to-give-its-rank-and-file-new-talking-points-defending-surveillance-old-ones-are-stale.shtml
NSA Needs To Give Its Rank-and-File New Talking Points Defending
Surveillance; The Old Ones Are Stale
from the that's-not-really-going-to-cut-it dept
by Mike Masnick, Tue, Sep 17th 2013
It would appear that the NSA's latest PR trick is to get out beyond
the top brass -- James Clapper, Keith Alexander, Michael Hayden and
Robert Litt haven't exactly been doing the NSA any favors on the PR
front lately -- and get some commentary from "the rank and file."
ZDNet apparently agreed to publish a piece from NSA mathemetician/
cryptanalyst Roger Barkan in which he defends the NSA using a bunch
of already debunked talking points. What's funny is that many of
these were the talking points that the NSA first tried out back in
June and were quickly shown to be untrue. However, let's take a
look. It's not that Barkan is directly lying... it's just that he's
setting up strawmen to knock down at a record pace.
John
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