POPULAR SCIENCE | AUGUST 13, 2014
NSA's Utah Data Center A view of Monstermind's physical lair, photographed from an Electronic Frontier Foundation airship Parker Higgins, Electronic. As described, MonsterMind is a brute force approach to covert cyber war embodied in one program. In order to function, it scans a huge amount of electronic communication, all passing through the 247 acre facility, and looks for attacks. That's the scary part. The dumb part is how it automatically decides where to strike back. That's a problem, Snowden says, because the initial attacks are often routed through computers in innocent third countries. "These attacks can be spoofed," he says. "You could have someone sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one of these attacks is originating in Russia. And then we end up shooting back at a Russian hospital. What happens next?"
When there is no oversight the results are predictable. It's like letting the kindergartners run the grade school. Kindergartners with billions of our dollars and absolutely no accountability. This might make a great comedy if it wasn't terrifying.
Well, kinda thanks to DrT for sending us this article.
Cyndi Webteam
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