Tag: hayden
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Ex-NSA director gets a taste of his own eavesdropping
from msnbc.com: Former Bush National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden learned the hard way Thursday afternoon that you never know who’s listening. Hayden was on an Amtrak Acela train reportedly attempting to give an anonymous quote to a newspaper reporter disparaging the Obama administration’s handling of the fallout from revelations that the NSA spied on…
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Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists
from salon.com: Michael Hayden equates potential angry reactions to Snowden indictments to al-Qaida operations. The cyberscare, like the redscare or the greenscare of the ’90′s, is already under way. We’ve seen it take root with the fierce federal persecution of Aaron Swartz, the hefty charges and prison sentence facing LulzSec hacktivist Jeremy Hammond and the…
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#DataDump: #Stuxnet, #Stratfor, #DarkMatter, #DARPA and more
Former NSA Head Hayden: Hitting Iran with Stuxnet Was a Good Idea // FBI investigation into News Corp moves to Russia amid claims billboard firm bribed officials // Video Update: Unexplained ‘Phoenix Lights’ explosion caught live on news broadcast
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10/6 defcon: nsa, b of a, acta & siri
#phonehacking: news corp faces more than 60 claims* homeland security dept puts its websites in the cloud* hayden to congress: let nsa monitor public nets for threats* bank of america website disrupted for 4th day in a row* gps inventor urges scotus to reject warrantless tracking* video: americans offered sleep-monitoring datatouch card* video: US signs…
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Ex-CIA/NSA Director Hayden Calls for a ‘Digital Blackwater’
The man who headed the NSA and CIA under President George W. Bush suggested Friday that mercenaries were needed to deal with growing cyber threats.
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‘ex-cia’ head hayden says US should be able to shut down internet
from reuters: Cyberterrorism is such a threat that the U.S. president should have the authority to shut down the Internet in the event of an attack, Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said. Hayden made the comments during a visit to San Antonio where he was meeting with military and civilian officials to discuss cyber security.…