U.S. to establish new cybersecurity agency: official

[Ethnod]

 

Good thing? Bad thing? Christ knows, I'll reserve judgement until the powers they will be given are revealed. 

The fact that it is going to be covering what a lot of agencies already do will be interesting, if they eliminate the other sections within other agencies and then centralise it and control it more then they may have more or less power but more visible, more regimented but then again...

 

 

Source:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/10/us-cybersecurity-agency-idUSKBN0LE1EX20150210

[Trik'Stari]

Right, we apparently don't have enough federal agencies with 0 accountability, time for some more.

[Ethnod]

Well we dont know what kind of accountability it will have yet, might actually not be a bad thing ....  <_<

[RH00D]

I guess all of these weren't enough:

 

CIA - Central Intelligence Agency

DEA - Drug Enforcement Agency

DHS - Department of Homeland Security

DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency

DOD - Department of Defense

FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation

INR - Bureau of Intelligence and Research

ISR - Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency

NRO - National Reconnaissance Office

NGA - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

NSA - National Security Agency

ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence

TFI - Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

ICE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

MCIA - Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

AFISRA - Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency

NASIC - National Air and Space Intelligence Center

CGI - Coast Guard Intelligence

HSI - Homeland Security Intelligence

I&A - Office of Intelligence & Analysis

OICI - Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

ODNI - Office of the Director of National Intelligence

NSB - FBI National Security Branch

NGIC - National Ground Intelligence Center

INSCOM - United States Army Intelligence and Security Command

USCYBERCOM - United States Cyber Command

 

But I digress.

[wpirobotbuilder]

Good. It's about damn time someone else with resources got behind national cybersecurity, because lord knows businesses haven't been very successful at it.

 

For those worried about snooping -- it's already happening, so this won't impact that very much. What it will do is help mitigate foreign cyber attacks, which are numerous.

[Ethnod]

For those worried about snooping -- it's already happening, so this won't impact that very much. What it will do is help mitigate foreign cyber attacks, which are numerous.

 

Dude, that is a pipe dream. Hacking is a social and economical issue not a technical one. There is no such thing, and there will NEVER be, an unhackable system. Throwing more people and resources had not worked in the past I have no idea why they think it will now

Hacking for money, there are boat loads of money to be made from that shit and as such it will keep happening, especially originating from countries with a less affluent population. Hacking for fun will always happen and there is nothing we can do. Maybe encourage it rather than punish it, but encourage white hacking and making is less underground. And hacking for political reasons... well the US is never going to discourage that as long as they stay on the path they are on.

[Misanthrope]

I don't usually find myself agreeing with the conservative, "free market" side of things. But there is such a thing as too much fucking government: this will help almost no one since it serves only to protect the interests of corporations owned by rich individuals abroad, hardly any actual "Americans"

[Beskamir]

If only the US actually spent taxpayer money on things that mattered...

[zacRupnow]

Good. It's about damn time someone else with resources got behind national cybersecurity, because lord knows businesses haven't been very successful at it.

 

For those worried about snooping -- it's already happening, so this won't impact that very much. What it will do is help mitigate foreign cyber attacks, which are numerous.

http://map.ipviking.com/

This was after about 10min, notice that most attacks are on the USA and also come from within the USA.

[Tonylu1595]

I guess all of these weren't enough:

 

CIA - Central Intelligence Agency

DEA - Drug Enforcement Agency

DHS - Department of Homeland Security

DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency

DOD - Department of Defense

FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation

INR - Bureau of Intelligence and Research

ISR - Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency

NRO - National Reconnaissance Office

NGA - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

NSA - National Security Agency

ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence

TFI - Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

ICE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

MCIA - Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

AFISRA - Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency

NASIC - National Air and Space Intelligence Center

CGI - Coast Guard Intelligence

HSI - Homeland Security Intelligence

I&A - Office of Intelligence & Analysis

OICI - Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

ODNI - Office of the Director of National Intelligence

NSB - FBI National Security Branch

NGIC - National Ground Intelligence Center

INSCOM - United States Army Intelligence and Security Command

USCYBERCOM - United States Cyber Command

 

But I digress.

Yeah I think we need more. 

[CommandMan7]

 

http://map.ipviking.com/

 

This was after about 10min, notice that most attacks are on the USA and also come from within the USA.

 

That's really cool. What you didn't mention is that most attacks originating in the US are coordinated with much larger foreign attacks, suggesting that they're botnets. I'm not saying the US isn't a major source of attacks, but foreign countries are definitely more aggressive.

[CoffeeBlack]

Yeah...because we have a huge surplus of government dollars to spend.

[zacRupnow]

That's really cool. What you didn't mention is that most attacks originating in the US are coordinated with much larger foreign attacks, suggesting that they're botnets. I'm not saying the US isn't a major source of attacks, but foreign countries are definitely more aggressive.

You'd also be surprised at how many attacks come from large corporations to small local areas. You can often see Comcast or Verizon on the attack origins lists targeting small areas, probably towns with alot of Netflix (or similar) users.

[Builder]

But I digress.

Do you know what that means?

 

I don't usually find myself agreeing with the conservative, "free market" side of things. But there is such a thing as too much fucking government: this will help almost no one since it serves only to protect the interests of corporations owned by rich individuals abroad, hardly any actual "Americans"

Liberals and socialists aren't pro-government. Quite the contrary. We want the government to stop focussing on unnecessary shit like counter-terrorism and use that money to actually help people. The government's influence on our life and foreign countries needs to be reduced in some areas and increased in others. We're focussing our efforts on the wrong things.

 

Also the "free market side of things" would love to protect the interests of corporations owned by rich individuals abroad. Protecting interests is what ensures a free market, dammit! (/sarc)

[RH00D]

Do you know what that means?

 

Yes.

 

digress

/daɪˈɡrɛs/

verb (intransitive)

1.

to depart from the main subject in speech or writing

2.

to wander from one's path or main direction

 

I used it meaning I wasn't going to get heavily into the topic of how much redundancy there is in government agencies. I acknowledged it and left it at that. I probably could have found a better word or just said "I'm not going to get heavily into this topic" but, shit happens eh?

 

Anything else trivial you'd like to pick apart about my posts?

[Builder]

Anything else trivial you'd like to pick apart about my posts?

Nice edit on the trivial.

 

So your usage is incorrect then. That's why I didn't understand your intention. Now I do.

[Syntaxvgm]

While I understand that we need to have a focus on cyber security for the fact that cyber war fare is more and more common and we shouldn't fall behind, but I don't understand why we need to make YET ANOTHER government agency. Homeland security and the national security agency, are they not the type of agencies for this?

[bcredeur97]

taxpayer dollars thrown away on yet another thing that we do not really need... sigh

 

tired of people who dont "feel" money

[handymanshandle]

I was hoping the goal was to reduce intelligence agencies not expand them, it's rather sad when one of our allies (Germany) has to consider or does going/go back to typewriters because of the NSA.

[Syntaxvgm]

Who's idea in Congress was this? (Don't play the Obama card, the president is more so like the US's elected version of Queen Elizabeth II).

Obama's fault.

[IPCharger]

Oh god this can't be good...

More money to NASA pls.

[Snickerzz]

taxpayer dollars thrown away on yet another thing that we do not really need... sigh

 

tired of people who dont "feel" money

ikr? We should use the money to buy horses for everyone