Tonya L. Ugoretz Quotes

Many computer experts and security operatives view this kind of advice and strategy as counter-productive as there are some computer security extremists who so harden computer systems and networks that they function poorly and cause really harmful operational problems. The classic case was the FBI agent in Minnesota who before 9-11 had information that Muslims foreigners were taking flying lessons. She wanted to get the information to the national security FBI people, but she was not allowed to send the information by e-mail. Instead she had to use a "secure" system that was much slower and could not be viewed by the people who might have been able to connect the dots and do something about it. The FBI has now a better balance between functionality and security, but it is a good example of how "security fanaticism" can make us less safe.

A few weeks before, the computers of the Democratic National Committee were hacked and thousands of private and confidential e-mails were made public. The security experts claimed that the hackers came from Russia.

In the digital technology era, the personal computer enabled tens of thousands of young people to become highly skillful at computer technology. Some of them tended to disagree with the government or protest areas of society using the technology to learn information of to communicate their ideas to the world. The government authorities did not have many people who were in the same technological class and very frequently authorities with virtually unlimited resources to protect government secrets or government facilities were embarrassed by being outsmarted by usually young people with little or no resources. When the authorities were embarrassed, they tended to arrest the “hacktivists” and charge them with very serious crimes—far greater or trumped up from no crime at all, in order to punish the hacktivists and discourage others.

He was the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The NSA had hacked into the servers of these firms and others that were located out of the country. (They would need to have a warrant if inside the country.) The companies had never known it until Edward Snowden made this practice public. The result was, the public was learning that there was no privacy in any of their e-mail, social media activity, exchange of photos or videos or anything else. The companies feared that this would then harm their business, and that the techniques NSA used to hack there servers would then be discovered and used by others to steal identities, credit cards and do such other damage to customers. Even if the particular hacking methods were not leaked to the bad guys, they, knowing that the servers were vulnerable, would be encouraged to work to figure it out.

The NSA in defending their program stated that they were looking for a “needle in a hay stack”. Logically, her criticism would seem to make great sense. However, the new computer technology makes looking for “needles” very fast and inexpensive. Therefore, they argue, the size of the haystack does not matter.

He was describing hackers. The term originally was used in the comptuer world to refer to a perso who had the tallent and the knowhow to enter anbd utilize computers when the did not have the specific permissions to do so. Many computer security experts refer to themjselves as hackes because they show computer managers where their vulnerabilities are. Others work for law enforcement, and some work for expionage agencies, Others are theives who use theior abilties to steal or commit fraud. Still other hackers see hacking as a sport and break into computers for the challange.

There is a constant race between the developers of hacking and cyberattack software and the developers of security and protective software.