“Einstein Cyber Shield”: Worse than the USA Patriot Act
The USA PATRIOT Act was, in my mind, one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed, and its abuses are one of the two methods in which I think George W. Bush’s Administration blatantly violated the US Constitution.
But the Wall Street Journal is telling us that the government is now serving up something even worse. Project Einstein:
The current version of the program is widely seen as providing meager protection against attack, but a new version being built will be more robust-largely because it’s rooted in NSA technology. The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary.
Homeland Security will then strip out identifying information and pass along data on new threats to NSA. It will also use threat information from NSA to better identify emerging cyber attacks.
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When you’re right, you’re right, and here you’re right from beginning to end, and I, as an occasional critic, do not hesitate to admit it.
This is even worse than Project Baby Einstein.