Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, July 03, 2009 3:00:09 PM
The more Barack Obama learns about George W. Bush, the more he seems to
like his predecessor. In yet another reversal from his campaign
rhetoric and another broken promise to the Left, the Obama
administration has adopted a Bush administration plan
to use the NSA to secure private computer networks. The decision
contradicts Obama’s earlier position that he would not allow the NSA to
have access to private communications networks
No matter how the White House tries to cut it rhetorically, the NSA
will have to look at traffic from private networks to protect public
ones. This is so obviously true that it defies common sense to think
otherwise. You are likely accessing Hot Air through a private network,
such as Comcast, Verizon, Cox, or a workplace-based network with a
connection directly to the Internet. (We won’t rat you out if it’s the
latter — trust us.) If you move from Hot Air to, say, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, then the traffic to that server passes through both private and public networks. The only way the NSA won’t access
private-network traffic would be if they only looked at accesses from
within the federal network, which would be pointless in preventing hack
attacks on government servers.