NSA DATA MINING: THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS

 

Even the United States of America is not immune from tyranny and totalitarianism if its government becomes too powerful and too intrusive. (Read the full column at EWRoss.com)

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THE LASTING LEGACY OF 9/11

This week is the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Is their lasting legacy greater security for Americans from terrorist attacks because of everything the United States has done in their aftermath? Or, is it the erosion of our privacy and freedom?  (Read the full column at EWRoss.com)

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CYBERSECURITY VS. CYBERVAMPIRES: THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS

“There are two types of companies left in America; those that have been hacked and know it, and those that have been hacked and don’t know it.”  (Read the full column at EWRoss.com)

Filed under: National Security, 500th Military Intelligence Group, 9/11, ABC News, American citizens’ privacy, and Sen. Sam Ervin, anti-Vietnam War, antitrust laws, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Bill Clinton, Capitol Hill, Chairman, Chinese hacking, Christopher Pyle, CISPA, co-sponsor, confidential information, Congressional inquiries, critical infrastructure, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, cyber-Pearl Harbor, cybersecurity, cybersecurity company Good Harbor, cybersecurity experts, cyberthreats, cybervampires, death of a thousand cuts, Ed Ross, ewross, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, George H.W. Bush, hacked, impede Iranian uranium enrichment centrifuges, Iran, lesser of two evils, martial law in Hawaii, Military, National Coordinator for Security Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism, on American soil, Pandora’s Box, Patriot Act, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, preaching to the choir, President Obama, Rep. Jarid Polis, Rep. Mike Rogers, research and development, Richard Clarke, Ronald Reagan, Sen. Frank Church, Senate, spy on American citizens, steal military and financial secrets, Stuxnet virus, surveillance, taiwan strait, U.S power grids, U.S. Army’s Honolulu Field Office, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. military routinely spied on American citizens, U.S. national and economic security, UK Daily Mail, unclassified networks, Vietnam War, whistleblower