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Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Fri Jun 7 19:17:35 2013

Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:17:14 -0700
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AAD806E2-57A6-482E-BFBA-7B1FF4B4596A@seiden.com>
Reply-To: ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-ove=
rseas

the headline may be misleading.

Presidential Policy Directive 20 defines OCEO as "operations and
related programs or activities =85 conducted by or on behalf of the
United States Government, in or through cyberspace, that are intended
to enable or produce cyber effects outside United States government
networks."

effects outside United States government networks.

now there's an interesting phrase.

OCEO =3D=3D "Offensive Cyber Effects Operations".

-e



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