2nd March Comments

Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 at 5:19 am

This was on wired and I thought that you folks might want to take a look at it this guy is the ultimate doomsayer I have heard of in a long time, Baldy.

The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.

McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He’s the nice-seeming guy who’s willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate the federal bureaucracy for his own ends, while coming off like a straight shooter to those who are not in the know.

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