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Cooperation between NSA and Microsoft raises questions
Published: 04 December, 2009, 05:22
Edited: 05 December, 2009, 11:21
TAGS: Internet, Information Technology
The US National Security Agency has offered to work with Microsoft on the development of their Windows software. It comes amid claims that the NSA could track users and intercept their communications.
RT contributor and investigative journalist Wayne Madsen says the main question for NSA and Microsoft now is to explain how they define defensive and offensive information security.
“NSA now has three missions,” Madsen said. “They’ve always had a mission of basically spying on foreign communications. They also had a job of protecting US message traffic and secrets by creating our own cryptographic system. And now it’s the role of cyber security. The question is what constitutes protective information security or what they call defensive information warfare operations. What’s the difference between that and offensive information?”
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The UK invented cyber spying and has been doing it since the UK scientists who helped to invent the internet showed how easy it was. The things that have changed over the years are the software and hardware - which have in turn opened new possibilities for snooping. It is now so rife around the world that security agencies no longer regard the various methods of monitoring internet traffic / spying as 'secret' - it is now expected that someone or some computer - is keeping tabs on every web site you visit. Going deeper and reading emails etc is now mostly just as easy and common as telephone tapping used to be. As technology improves and most people converge towards the use of software and hardware made by a few global players it is logical for security services to work closely with this big players - overtly or covertly to make it easier for them to go deeper still without too much effort. The only way to prevent agencies knowing just about everything about you is to go 'off grid' - very difficult indeed in this digital age.
Spying on citizens of any country should be illegal, period, regardless of the method used. People around the world are losing more and more of their freedoms and, apparently, politicians want it that way. They preach democracy but practice dictatorial methods. The world is in a mess, but the politicians continue to live a life of luxury while tax payers are taxed more and more. How long can this fraud continue?