Saturday 16 January 2016

Meet Jeb Bush’s police state: The NSA in charge of civilian data

Given the various recent terrorist attacks, it’s no wonder that hackers, cybersecurity, encryption and surveillance are all major topics of this year’s presidential campaign.Encryption was on the table during the sixth Republican debate on Thursday night, with Jeb Bush proposing a solution for guarding the American people that seems to be taken out of a George Orwell novel.

Bush said he would be willing to put the NSA in charge of civilian data, corporate cybersecurity and the Internet, as The Guardian explains, and that decrypting protected communications would be very much on his agenda.

“We need to put the NSA in charge of the civilian side of this, and we need more cooperation. You have to keep asking to decrypt messages,” Bush said. For the full article click here 



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