Domestic Spying Indicates Changes at the NSA
Robert Windrem writes in MSNBC News:
It’s not your father’s NSA, and that may be at the heart of the current domestic spy scandal.
The National Security Agency, the nation’s supersecret electronic spy agency, has moved from just intercepting “information in motion” to seeking out “information at rest.” It is seeking out information, not passively waiting for it to arrive, an outgrowth of Bush administration policy that favors intervention rather than retaliation after the fact.
What’s the difference?
Information in motion is data moving between one person or computer to another. Information at rest is that which sits in a computer or in a cell phone that is vulnerable to penetration via the Internet. One is interception, the other intrusion.
posted by Fergie @ 12/21/2005 05:54:00 PM
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