The US Defence Department funded/invented internet, cables were stretched. A useful tool for collecting other countries' civilian and governmental data. (At my office, across the Atlantic, simple software like MS W10, Teams, Outlook, Skydrive etc. and Chrome as browser still ensure that everything I type is stored somewhere in the US lon…
The US Defence Department funded/invented internet, cables were stretched. A useful tool for collecting other countries' civilian and governmental data. (At my office, across the Atlantic, simple software like MS W10, Teams, Outlook, Skydrive etc. and Chrome as browser still ensure that everything I type is stored somewhere in the US long before I click "Post".)
20 years ago, the US was in forefront technologically, and the internet-in-our-pocket could still be controlled.
The table is now turned, and it can prove difficult to put this genie back where it belongs.
Have you played chinese checkers? If you do a good, fast opening you also make it easier for the opponent to advance, using your marbles as a ladder, at the same time with but one or two of his marbles block or delay further advances from your side of the board.
There isn't any doubt that right from the beginning relying on commercial gear and compromising it for intelligence purposes has, in the past decade or more, come back to bite us. If you look at the equities, we can spy on our internal and external adversaries, but so can they, and what we have is far more valuable than what they have. There is little incentive to really fix the problem, so it only grows worse and more threatening to US security. I often say that one consequence of all this is we have two defense budgets --one for us and the other for "them"
The US Defence Department funded/invented internet, cables were stretched. A useful tool for collecting other countries' civilian and governmental data. (At my office, across the Atlantic, simple software like MS W10, Teams, Outlook, Skydrive etc. and Chrome as browser still ensure that everything I type is stored somewhere in the US long before I click "Post".)
20 years ago, the US was in forefront technologically, and the internet-in-our-pocket could still be controlled.
The table is now turned, and it can prove difficult to put this genie back where it belongs.
Have you played chinese checkers? If you do a good, fast opening you also make it easier for the opponent to advance, using your marbles as a ladder, at the same time with but one or two of his marbles block or delay further advances from your side of the board.
We may easily end up losing.
There isn't any doubt that right from the beginning relying on commercial gear and compromising it for intelligence purposes has, in the past decade or more, come back to bite us. If you look at the equities, we can spy on our internal and external adversaries, but so can they, and what we have is far more valuable than what they have. There is little incentive to really fix the problem, so it only grows worse and more threatening to US security. I often say that one consequence of all this is we have two defense budgets --one for us and the other for "them"