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De de spionleider van de V.S. zet veiligheid over privacy
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De privacy zal een `moeten nemen de achterbank in naam van veiligheid', Mike McConnell waarschuwt
Door Iain Thomson
Directeur van Nationale Intelligentie, die op alle 16 de intelligentieagentschappen toezicht houdt van de V.S., de mate heeft geopenbaard waarin het binnenlandse en internationale Internet verkeer wordt gecontroleerd.
Mike McConnell, die direct President Bush op veiligheidskwesties adviseert, zei in een artikel in Newyorker die privacy zal een achterbank in naam van veiligheid moeten nemen.
McConnell gaf details van een voorgesteld cyber-veiligheidsbeleid dat Internet dicht activiteit zal controleren.
Lawrence Wright, de auteur van het artikel, eiste die ED Giorgio, een vroegere belangrijkste codebreker bij Het Agentschap van de nationale Veiligheid who is working with McConnell on the plan, had told him that this would mean giving the government the authority to examine the content of any email, file transfer or web search.
“Google has records that could help in a cyber-investigation,” said Wright. “Giorgio warned me that ‘privacy and security are a zero-sum game’.”
McConnell, who keeps a clock on his desk counting down the seconds of the Bush presidency, admitted that the plans would be a tough sell to the legislature but insisted that they are necessary.
“My prediction is that we are going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens,” he told Wright.
Wright suggested that this kind of monitoring is already going on. He spoke to an AT& T employee, Mark Klein, who claimed that he installed data switching systems in the company’s exchange that copied all internet traffic to the National Security Agency.
“I know that whatever went across those cables was copied and the entire data stream was copied,” said Klein. “We are talking about domestic as well as international traffic.”
He added that previous claims by the Bush administration that only international communications were being intercepted are not accurate.
“I know the physical equipment, and I know that statement is not true,” said Klein. “It involves millions of communications, a lot of it domestic communications that they are copying wholesale.”
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