Comments on: Cyber Security Initiative is Too Secret, SASC Says

By: Lois White Buffalo

Lois White Buffalo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:43:02 +0000

This phenomenon must be symptomatic of the devolution of a culture of democracy into one of secrecy for the sake of secrecy. Other manifestations of such a paranoid national security state mentality have included Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. Perhaps we should go back and review social theory a little bit here folks. Needed are definitions of “democracy”, “fascism”, “communism” and “totalitarianism”. This discussion in our government has lost all relevance to the public that it purports to serve.
I am happy to supply said definitions for further discussion.
Lois White Buffalo (an alias- real id is secret)
(formerly a citizen and resident of the USA, now actively seeking political asylum due to theft of my identity by the secret government.)

By: jhm

jhm — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:43:00 +0000

There seems to be a policy of “let them imagine the worst.” kind of deterrence. The only problem is that time, and time again, when the veil is pulled back, it is discovered that behind it lay not much at all. A veneer of competence disguising incompetence.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:49:55 +0000

I asked the same question about the secrecy surrounding the national cyber security initiatives to Kevin Coleman who blogs on cyber warfare for DefenseTech.org. He actually took the time to speak with me on the phone. What I took away was that with the broad use of the same software all over the world, disclosing how we will address our security can allow those who wish to do us harm the ability to reverse engineer our measures and find new ways to attack our systems. I talked to our IT guys and they actually agreed with his concerns. There should be some oversight but not in the public venue.