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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwo New Reports Show the Terrible Costs of NSA Surveillance
http://www.nationofchange.org/two-new-reports-show-terrible-costs-nsa-surveillance-1407254491
A report from the New America Foundations Open Technology Institute probes the broader implications of NSA surveillance. Surveillance Costs: The NSAs Impact on the Economy, Internet Freedom and Cybersecurity considers how the spying scandal has hurt American business, damaged relations between the U.S. and other countries and weakened Internet security.
You read that correctly: In the course of conducting activities designed to boost national security, the U.S. has actually made the Internet more vulnerable. The NSAs work to undermine the tools and standards that help ensure cybersecurity especially its work to thwart encryption undermines trust in the safety of the overall network, the report notes.
And this is not just about eroding public trust; by exploiting security glitches in software and hardware, breaking encryption codes and hacking into networks, the NSA has undermined the stability of the Internet itself.
Both With Liberty to Monitor All and Surveillance Costs urge the U.S. government to safeguard Americans privacy rights and boost transparency about spying activities. Sen. Patrick Leahys version of the USA Freedom Act, introduced on Tuesday, is a step in the right direction.
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Two New Reports Show the Terrible Costs of NSA Surveillance (Original Post)
eridani
Aug 2014
OP
Just some patriotic folks spying on some other folks, can't blame em, yolo!
whereisjustice
Aug 2014
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whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)1. Just some patriotic folks spying on some other folks, can't blame em, yolo!
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)2. It's just affecting some internet folks.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)3. the us spies and stuff.
indepat
(20,899 posts)4. TPTB will bear any cost to operate and maintain a national security surveillance state so it
can peek at your papers and person, but none of this is obtrusive state voyeurism, no siree!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)5. If they didn't spy on everybody, they couldn't control everybody.
Cheaper than having to hire police men and build nice schools and things.