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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Major carriers ally with NSA to monitor Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Fri Jun 17 02:54:00 2011
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:36:16 -0700
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Major carriers ally with NSA to monitor Internet traffic threat signatures
http://bit.ly/m16pdw (This message on Google Buzz)
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http://j.mp/kwfKBo (Washington Post)
"Officials say the pilot program does not involve direct monitoring of
the contractors' networks by the government. The program uses
NSA-developed "signatures," or fingerprints of malicious code, and
sequences of suspicious network behavior to filter the Internet
traffic flowing to major defense contractors. That allows the Internet
providers to disable the threats before an attack can penetrate a
contractor's servers. The trial is testing two particular sets of
signatures and behavior patterns that the NSA has detected as threats."
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As described, I find nothing alarming about this program. My comments
regarding other NSA technical partnerships -- in "Google (and Lauren)
Meet NSA" ( http://bit.ly/bcz6ei [Lauren's Blog] ) -- may be of
some relevance toward evaluating such situations.
--Lauren--
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