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Chris Hanson
By The Raven on 12/17/2010 12:36:03 PM , Rating: 0
I'm ok with this. I personally go through life as a parent assuming that everyone is a potential child molester. Sure there are the "blue dot" websites out there showing where the molesters are. But those are only the CONVICTED molesters. They all started somewhere and there are ones out there who haven't been caught.

I'm not a helicopter parent and I don't put foam bumpers all over my house, but I have been going through parenting with this outlook being aware of the risk and not believeing that I live in some protected bubble devoid of worry.

I think the gov't should also assume that they are not in a protective bubble. It seems like they have gotten into that belief based on their reaction to the Wikileaks leaks.

I take measures to protect my kids and we as a society collectively prepare for the worst by having a justice system in case such tragedy does occur. But being aware of the threat is the first step in setting up effective protection. And by threat, I mean the threat of miscreants getting through our best protective efforts . Not just the threat of violation in general.

That is just my thought on this security business. It should also be a policy to have as few secrets as possible. I think of "Operation Reciprocity" from Clear and Present Danger. The president had a secret and Ryan found out about it. If he hadn't bombed Escobedo's house in Columbia in the first place there would be no secret.
Well he wouldn't have to worry about that getting out if it wasn't a secret.

Operational secrets are a necessity but what information is use to make decisions should not be kept secret. It sure would shut up those "Bush is a war criminal" people if it was declassified lol. Or maybe it wouldn't hmm...

I see it like football in a way. The coaches cover their mouths and use code to keep the plays that they call secret from the opposition but everyone knows how many people are on the field, what the teams are trying to do, when someone is injured, how much money they make, who is the coach, etc. I wish I could trust the President/gov't and/or media to be straightforward with that type of info. But I remain very weary.

RE: Chris Hanson
By Fritzr on 12/17/2010 6:37:25 PM , Rating: 2
What I find surprising is that it is the NSA saying this is a new idea.

That agency should have been one of the first to realize that compartmentalized targets were a headache to attack, and those that allowed easy search and retrieval after initial access were a major security risk. They do this to the other side as their daily employment.

What took them so long to realize that the things that caused them problems would cause foreign attackers to have the same problems & things that made their life easy would make life easy for foreign attackers.

Compartmentalization has been part of the security protocol for centuries, why this sudden announcement that US national security just discovered this wonderful idea?

