[163487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike A)
Sun Jun 9 15:23:49 2013
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 14:23:17 -0500
From: Mike A <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <51B269FA.9070106@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:17:14PM -0700, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas
>
> the headline may be misleading.
>
> Presidential Policy Directive 20 defines OCEO as "operations and
> related programs or activities ? 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 == "Offensive Cyber Effects Operations".
No more so than describing NSA operations as "research in communications
phenomena", which used to be the (UNCLAS) party line.
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
