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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo how about this all powerful NSA? Why didn't they catch the Sony hack?
It seems they are not designed to protect America.
Something like the Sony hack is totally outside of their purview.
They are designed to spy on us, not protect us.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)For good or ill, the NSA is going to be secretive of anything it does.
MADem
(135,425 posts)To riff on an old horror movie theme....
Maybe it wasn't the "North Koreans" at all, but someone who was pissed off at SONY. A Snowden in the SONY empire, if you will.
I read in that released material that Alex Trebek had words with them, someone needs to check his hard drives !!!!
"I'll take computer hackers for a thousand, Alex!"
pacalo
(24,721 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)snot
(10,530 posts)Their natural enemy is not N. Korea; it's us.
(N. Korea is the enemy of their enemy: we the people.)
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)They have lost any sense of protecting national security. Assuming they ever had it.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)It is the NSA's job only if it effects government web sites and interests. The NSA can't control hackers and malware in private companies.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)OpenSSL was nearly ubiquitous. The NSA's job is to assure security for the country, not just federal level, they should've caught it.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Sony was either using the wrong security company or the wrong software. The NSA does not protect private companies from hackers, it isn't their job. Sony bears some responsibility in this for not keeping their own interests safe.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)If they didn't know what Snowden was doing, do they know what others are doing?
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)...or one of the multiple private firms they hand troves on intelligence data off to.
You don't take 100TB of data without someone seeing.
This is one of the downsides of having a surveillance state where everything is recorded, logged and monitored. It makes it easier for outsiders to spy on YOU.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)but the NSA isn't the all-conquering behemoth everyone wants to conveniently portray it as...
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)So don't pose your criticism in those terms.