Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption by 7 Years

[eridani]

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/25/spy-chief-complains-that-edward-snowden-sped-up-spread-of-encryption-by-7-years/

“As a result of the Snowden revelations, the onset of commercial encryption has accelerated by seven years,” James Clapper said during a breakfast for journalists hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

The shortened timeline has had “a profound effect on our ability to collect, particularly against terrorists,” he said.

When pressed by The Intercept to explain his figure, Clapper said it came from the National Security Agency. “The projected growth maturation and installation of commercially available encryption — what they had forecasted for seven years ahead, three years ago, was accelerated to now, because of the revelation of the leaks.”

Asked if that was a good thing, leading to better protection for American consumers from the arms race of hackers constantly trying to penetrate software worldwide, Clapper answered no.

“From our standpoint, it’s not … it’s not a good thing,” he said.

Technologists have been tirelessly working to strengthen encryption for decades, not just the past few years. But Snowden’s revelations about the pervasiveness of mass surveillance clearly accelerated its more widespread availability.

[GOLGO 13]

1. Thanks Snowden.

My next phone purchase will be made with encryption in mind.

[snooper2]

2. Yeah, snowy made technology leap 7 years forward LOL

Snowy the non-hacker who stole others passwords to get the data...

Clapper, who couldn't "ping" his way out of a wet paper bag LOL

[proverbialwisdom]

3. Barry Eisler's novel, God's Eye View, includes a 26-page compilation of sources.

SOURCES: http://www.barryeisler.com/gods-eye-view-sources.php

Bestselling Spy Novelist Barry Eisler (Interview w/ Cenk Uygur)

TYT Interviews
Published on Mar 1, 2016

https://afiosf.org/meeting/

Past Meetings:

Monday, February 29, 2016
Speaker: Barry Eisler, former CIA Case Officer and General Michael Hayden, former Director of NSA and CIA
Topic: The God’s Eye View: Privacy and Surveillance in the 21st Century and American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

Barry Eisler took us to the forbidding – and forbidden – places, programs, and conversations in the Intelligence Community: a war between those desperate to keep the state’s darkest secrets and those intent on revealing them.

General Michael Hayden offered an unapologetic insider’s look into the people who faced responsibilities head on: How did American intelligence respond to terrorism, a major war and the most sweeping technological revolution in the last 500 years; what was the NSA before 9/11 and how did it change in its aftermath; why did the NSA begin the controversial terrorist surveillance program that included the acquisition of domestic phone record and what else was set in motion during this period that formed the backdrop for the infamous Snowden revelations in 2013.

http://barryeisler.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-martian-tries-to-understand-why-our.html

Tuesday, March 01, 2016
A Martian Tries to Understand Why Our Violence is Good

Yesterday, I gave a talk to the San Francisco chapter of the Former Intelligence Officers Association. In front of about a hundred former CIA, FBI, and NSA operatives, including former head of the CIA and NSA Michael Hayden, I talked about bulk surveillance, whistleblowing, and why intelligence professionals need to take especially great care not to let propaganda pervert their intelligence...