No Good Answer
The BBC report, Heartbleed bug denial by NSA and White House, is a bit of a problem.
NSA has a two-part mission: protecting our secrets and finding out the secrets of other people. After 9/11 they have forgotten almost totally that they ae supposed to be securing US communications. Under Alexander the Geek NSA is all offense. This statement says that the government agency primarily responsible for secure communications didn’t discover a major problem with Internet security. That is incompetence or nonfeasance.
NSA missed the Boston Marathon Bombing and now didn’t see a major security flaw with supposedly secure communications over the Internet. There is no real proof that they are making anyone more secure, and a lot of proof that they are using a lot of resources that could be used for better purposes – things that actually improve the General Welfare.
April 12, 2014 2 Comments
