US Pres. Cand. Carly Fiorina Comes Out Against Crypto and Privacy
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/14/exclusive-carly-fiorina-c... When Fiorina was CEO at Hewlett-Packard, the NSA called her after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 asking for help. “They needed help getting a large amount of equipment very quickly. The reason they needed help getting that large amount of equipment quickly was because they were trying to stand up their ability to track people that were of a suspicious nature,” Fiorina explained. I diverted a lot of equipment from paying customers to the government in a very short period of time. I was happy to do it. “Number one, I would retaliate against China and Russia. They have hacked into some of our most sensitive systems and we haven’t done much about it,” she said, vowing, “I would retaliate.” “First that means there has to be laws that have to be passed. There are some things that have to be permissible legally, which would allow the private sector and the public sector to share information,” she said. One of the places we need help is to deal with all of these encrypted communications...we have to be able to work around it “It’s important for people to understand that because they’ve misunderstood that, and this address is one phone number to another phone number, that’s it,” she said, adding, “There is no content discussed. “ teaching people how to disappear online. They have online help desks.” Fiorina [babbled on about] the terrorist attack in San Bernardino
Carly Fiorna said:
“Number one, I would retaliate against China and Russia. They have hacked into some of our most sensitive systems and we haven’t done much about it,” she said, vowing, “I would retaliate.”
I still think the China attack trope is BS. Try US botnets installed on Chinese computers that not only make it look like China is attacking but glean the data obtained for US intel agencies. Ditto Russia, although I don't see that Russia is even being pegged as a big cyber-attacker. I DO BELIEVE they hack to extract data about the US government from .gov and .mil addresses but if there are malicious attacks they're in the Anonymous league of things... Unlike the attack on Protonmail a while back which started with a criminal attack followed by a MASSIVE attack that only a government with major capabilities could do. Not seen anything like that directed against US government servers, nor do I believe the Chnese/Russian government is particularly interested in US government employee info or our credit card numbers. -- RR "You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around with mine until it worked..."
grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> quotes:
“First that means there has to be laws that have to be passed. There are some things that have to be permissible legally, which would allow the private sector and the public sector to share information,” she said.
They need to pass an Enabling Act to allow this, a law to remedy the distress of the people and the nation, followed by a law against treacherous attacks on the state and government, and maybe another one to safeguard the unity between government and country. That would give them all the leeway they need to act. Peter.
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Peter Gutmann
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