Not only the cyber titans were treated to classified briefings by NSA but also journalists, a number of them since the Snowden releases, continuing a long tradition of cultivating amplifiers and opiners in just about all fields -- com, edu, org, experts, in particular those in infosec, comsec, netsec and data harvesting. And like the titans, the others assure their customers nothing like that is going on, abiding non-disclosure pacts obligatory for classified entry to secretkeeping. Dual-hats for dual-usage. And not a few of these are rewarded not merely with information but contracts, fees, endorsements, featured product placements in spy offerings, awards (open and secret), vouchings in setting of standards, educational scholarships for expert profs students and research assistants, consultancies, recommendations to corporations and foreign customers. What is wondrous about the Snowden releases is that there is so little about this far broader constituencies which conspire with spies, invent and promote spy products and services, with the easy corporate targets serving as camouflage for the ostensibly good hearts who avow they are on the side of the public. A distinctive feature of this charade is inveterate lying, as spies do with pride and vainglory, as security pros must do or die, threatended to be killed for telling just half of the whole story as ex-spies do to save their skin. Whadda you mean, the whole story, are you nuts? The whole story is beyond belief, beyond revelation, nobody knows it. It is postulated to make the partial revelations look like a clue to much worse, a standard spy, ethics, education, religion business, government means and methods, which happens to be in effect for Snowden, as with other spies and exes, titans and journalists, scholars and hackers. At 10:28 PM 5/6/2014, you wrote:
On Tue, 6 May 2014 13:12:13 -0700 coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html
" NSA cyberdefense chief Debora Plunkett in December disclosed that the agency had thwarted a âBIOS plotâ by a ânation-state,â identified as China, to brick U.S. computers. "
LMAO!!!!!!!!
Everywhere I look I see self-parody....