NSA Director Wants Threat Data Sharing With Private Sector 126
Trailrunner7 writes "While Congress and the technology community are still debating and discussing the intelligence gathering capabilities of NSA revealed in recent months, the agency's director, Gen. Keith Alexander, is not just defending the use of these existing tools, but is pitching the idea of sharing some of the vast amounts of threat and vulnerability data the NSA and other agencies possess with organizations in the private sector. Speaking at a time of great scrutiny of the agency and its activities, Alexander said that the NSA, along with other federal agencies such as the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and CIA, need to find a way to share the attack and vulnerability information they collect in order to help key private organizations react to emerging threats. Though the idea is still in its formative stages, Alexander said that it potentially could include companies in foreign countries, as well. 'We need the authority for us to share with them and them to share with us. But because some of that information is classified, we need a way to protect it,' Alexander said during a keynote speech at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit here Wednesday. 'Right now, we can't see what's happening in real time. We've got to share it with them, and potentially with other countries.'"
company valuation (Score:5, Interesting)
So if I'm a company listed on the NASDAQ, do I get bump in my stock price for being in the NSA's "circle of trust"?
And if so, what incentives does that give to the NSA, to companies, and to traders?
Re:Bah. Just make it all public and to hell with i (Score:4, Interesting)
representative democracy= we make promises, you vote, we enter into office.
Immediate benefit for them, promise of later benefit for you.
Hmmm sounds like the most classical blueprint for a scam.
You should vote PROGRAMS, whose points become law overriding everything else, with the parliament devoted to harmonize it into the existing situation and the government devoted to apply.
And emergency laws should last 3 months.
Or direct democracy. Of course those in powers make sure we as people are not mature enough for direct democracy. We should adopt it as a form of punishment against our lack of spine.
Like the threat that Airbus posed to Boeing? (Score:5, Interesting)
Its not like the NSA doesn't have past form on passing industrial espionage on european companies to American ones...
Why is this Criminal not in Prison? (Score:4, Interesting)
He has violated the Constitution of the United States tens of thousands of times, without repercussions. He has consistently lied to Congress and the American people. He has created a rogue agency that threatens our very democracy and therefore represents a Clear and Present Danger to our freedom. I fear him and his lackies far more than Al Qaeda.
He and his followers are the ones who should be super max for the rest of their lives. Or executed. Either works for me.