I don’t believe we have a place for an organization such as NSA in our society. It must go. Benjamin Franklin said it best over 200 years ago.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Benjamin Franklin
Now, let’s take a look. Zuckerberg says:
“The U.S. government should be the champion for the Internet, not a threat,” he wrote in a post on his Facebook page yesterday. “They need to be much more transparent about what they’re doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.”
“We encrypt communications, we use secure protocols for traffic, we encourage people to use multiple factors for authentication and we go out of our way to help fix issues we find in other people’s services,” Zuckerberg said. “When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government.”
NSA says:
“NSA uses its technical capabilities only to support lawful and appropriate foreign intelligence operations, all of which must be carried out in strict accordance with its authorities,” it said. “NSA does not use its technical capabilities to impersonate U.S. company websites. Nor does NSA target any user of global Internet services without appropriate legal authority. Reports of indiscriminate computer exploitation operations are simply false.”
Who do you think is telling the truth here? I blame Obama.
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Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said he called U.S. PresidentBarack Obama to express his frustration over the government’s spying.
“The U.S. government should be the champion for the Internet, not a threat,” he wrote in a post on his Facebook page yesterday. “They need to be much more transparent about what they’re doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.”
Zuckerberg’s comments follow reports that the National Security Agency has been disguising itself as Facebook to gain access to users’ computers for spying, according to documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to the online news site The Intercept. It was the latest in a string of revelations about government surveillance that led Facebook, along with Google Inc., Apple Inc. and others, to call on the U.S. to disclose more about government requests for user data.
“We encrypt communications, we use secure protocols for traffic, we encourage people to use multiple factors for authentication and we go out of our way to help fix issues we find in other people’s services,” Zuckerberg said. “When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government.”
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said, “When our engineers work…Read More
Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for Obama’s National Security Council, confirmed the conversation between Zuckerberg and the president. She declined to give any details.
NSA Statement
In a statement yesterday, the NSA said it is “inaccurate” to say it is impersonating Facebook or any other websites.
“NSA uses its technical capabilities only to support lawful and appropriate foreign intelligence operations, all of which must be carried out in strict accordance with its authorities,” it said. “NSA does not use its technical capabilities to impersonate U.S. company websites. Nor does NSA target any user of global Internet services without appropriate legal authority. Reports of indiscriminate computer exploitation operations are simply false.”
Zuckerberg, the 21st-richest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has been ramping up his involvement in political issues, from education in New Jersey to infrastructure development in Africa. He has donated to candidates in both the Democratic and Republican parties and started an advocacy group called Fwd.us to lobby for changes to U.S. immigration policy.