I will simply say that most people making speeches about privacy these days don't actually understand what privacy is or why it's important. On 2/13/15 9:08 PM, Travis Biehn wrote:

From the article http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obamas-cybersecurity-plan-why-the-government-can...

"Dave DeWalt, CEO of security firm Mandiant, a participant in Friday's summit, hopes that fear of privacy invasion won't get in the way of the work that needs to get done. He pointed to the way the way public backlash to government surveillance programs revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden stymied previous efforts to effectively open the lines of communication.

"This balance between privacy and security ebbs and flows and unfortunately that was a huge setback -- a setback to the tune of several years," he said. "

This is the first that I've ever heard of a tradeoff between privacy and security in the context of 'cyber security'. It's interesting to see this common trope for justifying widespread erosion of privacy in meatspace applied to 'cyber', where it is even more egregiously wrong.

Travis