Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx18.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ramon F Herrera User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.security.pgp.tech,comp.security.pgp.discuss,sci.crypt Subject: NSA cryptanalyst: "We, too, are Americans" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:21:53 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:21:53 -0500 X-Received-Bytes: 1851 Xref: csiph.com comp.security.pgp.tech:31 comp.security.pgp.discuss:199 NSA cryptanalyst: We, too, are Americans Summary: ZDNet Exclusive: An NSA mathematician shares his from-the-trenches view of the agency's surveillance activities. "An NSA mathematician, seeking to help shape the ongoing debate about the agency's foreign surveillance activities, has contributed this column to ZDNet Government. The author, Roger Barkan, also appeared in last year's National Geographic Channel special about the National Security Agency. "The rest of this article contains Roger's words only, edited simply for formatting. "Many voices -- from those in the White House to others at my local coffee shop -- have weighed in on NSA's surveillance programs, which have recently been disclosed by the media. "As someone deep in the trenches of NSA, where I work on a daily basis with data acquired from these programs, I, too, feel compelled to raise my voice. Do I, as an American, have any concerns about whether the NSA is illegally or surreptitiously [...]" http://www.zdnet.com/nsa-cryptanalyst-we-too-are-americans-7000020689/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539 -Ramon