Now this is some scary stuff. Note the reference to Obama and what he was concentrating on instead of the business of the country. Trump doesn't come out too good either, but not for the reasons the vagina hat wearing crowd would like you to believe.
American Intelligence Horror Story
Are U.S. spies losing their technological edge?
The National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Maryland in 2013. PHOTO
ATRICK SEMANSKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By
James Freeman
Nov. 13, 2017 12:28 p.m. ET
279 COMMENTS
https://twitter.com/ScottShaneNYT/status/930060999419400192
Scott Shane
✔@ScottShaneNYT
NSA, sometimes said to stand for Never Say Anything, does not want to talk about this. But it's a momentous crisis for the largest US intelligence agency. https://nyti.ms/2jlglTa
7:13 AM - Nov 13, 2017
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core
A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
nytimes.com
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For years technologists have been warning about the possibility of a sort of digital Pearl Harbor in which a hostile foreign power launches a devastating cyber-attack on the United States. Is it already happening?
A disturbing report in theNew York Times describes the damage that has been done—and is still being done—by a mysterious group called the Shawdow Brokers, which managed to steal the hacking tools the U.S. National Security Agency has used to spy on other countries. The Times describes an “earthquake that has shaken the N.S.A. to its core” and adds:
Current and former agency officials say the Shadow Brokers disclosures, which began in August 2016, have been catastrophic for the N.S.A., calling into question its ability to protect potent cyberweapons and its very value to national security. The agency regarded as the world’s leader in breaking into adversaries’ computer networks failed to protect its own.
CBS News
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A reported breach of the NSA has been described as “catastrophic” and even worse than Edward Snowden’s massive data leak. CBS News Senior National Security Contributor @MichaelJMorelljoins @CBSThisMorning to discuss
7:08 AM - Nov 13, 2017
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Among the most disturbing aspects of the case is the fact that, long after the theft of critical data was detected, our government still doesn’t know how it happened. The Times writes:
Fifteen months into a wide-ranging investigation by the agency’s counterintelligence arm, known as Q Group, and the F.B.I., officials still do not know whether the N.S.A. is the victim of a brilliantly executed hack, with Russia as the most likely perpetrator, an insider’s leak, or both. Three employees have been arrested since 2015 for taking classified files, but there is fear that one or more leakers may still be in place. And there is broad agreement that the damage from the Shadow Brokers already far exceeds the harm to American intelligence done by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor who fled with four laptops of classified material in 2013.Mr. Snowden’s cascade of disclosures to journalists and his defiant public stance drew far more media coverage than this new breach. But Mr. Snowden released code words, while the Shadow Brokers have released the actual code; if he shared what might be described as battle plans, they have loosed the weapons themselves. Created at huge expense to American taxpayers, those cyberweapons have now been picked up by hackers from North Korea to Russia and shot back at the United States and its allies.
https://twitter.com/AndrewCMcCarthy/status/930077770025259008
Andrew C. McCarthy
✔@AndrewCMcCarthy
15 mos intensive investigation & FBI still can’t solve catastrophic NSA hack ... but surprised people question certainty of conclusions on DNC hack where it never examined server. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html …
8:19 AM - Nov 13, 2017
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core
A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
nytimes.com
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This NSA disaster occurred on President Obama’s watch and the Times report suggests that Mr. Obama ignored advice from top officials in his national security team to address the management failure because he prioritized the effort to search for potential 2016 Trump campaign links to Russia:
One N.S.A. official who almost saw his career ended by the Shadow Brokers is at the very top of the organization: Adm. Michael S. Rogers, director of the N.S.A. and commander of its sister military organization, United States Cyber Command. President Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., and defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, recommended removing Admiral Rogers from his post to create accountability for the breaches.
But Mr. Obama did not act on the advice, in part because Admiral Rogers’s agency was at the center of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
As for President Trump, the question is why he has not initiated a house-cleaning at the top of the NSA.
For all Americans, the question is whether the technological edge that the United States has enjoyed in defense and intelligence for essentially all of our lifetimes is now in jeopardy.
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Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!
6:48 PM - Nov 11, 2017 · Vietnam
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American Intelligence Horror Story
Are U.S. spies losing their technological edge?
The National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Maryland in 2013. PHOTO
ATRICK SEMANSKY/ASSOCIATED PRESSBy
James Freeman
Nov. 13, 2017 12:28 p.m. ET
279 COMMENTS
https://twitter.com/ScottShaneNYT/status/930060999419400192
Scott Shane ✔@ScottShaneNYT
NSA, sometimes said to stand for Never Say Anything, does not want to talk about this. But it's a momentous crisis for the largest US intelligence agency. https://nyti.ms/2jlglTa
7:13 AM - Nov 13, 2017
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core
A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
nytimes.com
Twitter Ads info and privacy
For years technologists have been warning about the possibility of a sort of digital Pearl Harbor in which a hostile foreign power launches a devastating cyber-attack on the United States. Is it already happening?
A disturbing report in theNew York Times describes the damage that has been done—and is still being done—by a mysterious group called the Shawdow Brokers, which managed to steal the hacking tools the U.S. National Security Agency has used to spy on other countries. The Times describes an “earthquake that has shaken the N.S.A. to its core” and adds:
Current and former agency officials say the Shadow Brokers disclosures, which began in August 2016, have been catastrophic for the N.S.A., calling into question its ability to protect potent cyberweapons and its very value to national security. The agency regarded as the world’s leader in breaking into adversaries’ computer networks failed to protect its own.
CBS News ✔@CBSNews
A reported breach of the NSA has been described as “catastrophic” and even worse than Edward Snowden’s massive data leak. CBS News Senior National Security Contributor @MichaelJMorelljoins @CBSThisMorning to discuss
7:08 AM - Nov 13, 2017
Twitter Ads info and privacy
Among the most disturbing aspects of the case is the fact that, long after the theft of critical data was detected, our government still doesn’t know how it happened. The Times writes:
Fifteen months into a wide-ranging investigation by the agency’s counterintelligence arm, known as Q Group, and the F.B.I., officials still do not know whether the N.S.A. is the victim of a brilliantly executed hack, with Russia as the most likely perpetrator, an insider’s leak, or both. Three employees have been arrested since 2015 for taking classified files, but there is fear that one or more leakers may still be in place. And there is broad agreement that the damage from the Shadow Brokers already far exceeds the harm to American intelligence done by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor who fled with four laptops of classified material in 2013.Mr. Snowden’s cascade of disclosures to journalists and his defiant public stance drew far more media coverage than this new breach. But Mr. Snowden released code words, while the Shadow Brokers have released the actual code; if he shared what might be described as battle plans, they have loosed the weapons themselves. Created at huge expense to American taxpayers, those cyberweapons have now been picked up by hackers from North Korea to Russia and shot back at the United States and its allies.
https://twitter.com/AndrewCMcCarthy/status/930077770025259008
Andrew C. McCarthy ✔@AndrewCMcCarthy
15 mos intensive investigation & FBI still can’t solve catastrophic NSA hack ... but surprised people question certainty of conclusions on DNC hack where it never examined server. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html …
8:19 AM - Nov 13, 2017
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core
A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
nytimes.com
Twitter Ads info and privacy
This NSA disaster occurred on President Obama’s watch and the Times report suggests that Mr. Obama ignored advice from top officials in his national security team to address the management failure because he prioritized the effort to search for potential 2016 Trump campaign links to Russia:
One N.S.A. official who almost saw his career ended by the Shadow Brokers is at the very top of the organization: Adm. Michael S. Rogers, director of the N.S.A. and commander of its sister military organization, United States Cyber Command. President Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., and defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, recommended removing Admiral Rogers from his post to create accountability for the breaches.
But Mr. Obama did not act on the advice, in part because Admiral Rogers’s agency was at the center of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
As for President Trump, the question is why he has not initiated a house-cleaning at the top of the NSA.
For all Americans, the question is whether the technological edge that the United States has enjoyed in defense and intelligence for essentially all of our lifetimes is now in jeopardy.
***
Bottom Stories of the Day
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/929511061954297857
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!
6:48 PM - Nov 11, 2017 · Vietnam
Twitter Ads info and privacy
Does This Tweet Make Me Look Apophatic?
“Trump mocks North Korea’s Kim, says he would never call him ‘short and fat’,” Fox News, Nov. 12
Annals of Single-Payer Health Care
“Canadian Patients And Doctors Are Sharing ‘Excruciating’ Wait Times On Twitter,” Huff Post, Nov. 3
So Much for the War on Drugs
“GOP Tax Plan Could Deal Blow to Seniors Paying for Long-Term Care,” ElderLawAnswers,” Nov. 10
Hypothesis and Proof
- “Without Humans, Artificial Intelligence Is Still Pretty Stupid,” The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 12
- “How to Survive a Robot Apocalypse: Just Close the Door,” The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 10
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