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So here is DIRNSA at AEI talking about, well, everything.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bcove.me/r7tgbw0w">http://bcove.me/r7tgbw0w</a> . At first I was like "this is super lame -
why is he going on about BackTrack and malware signatures?" But
there's this thing about American spooks Neal Stephenson <a
href="http://www.euskalnet.net/larraorma/crypto/slide41.html">points
out so well</a> in Cryptonomicon, probably something they stole
from the Brits, which is that they play as stupid as they think you
can handle at all times. If you get three dudes from an intel
background together, they'll each go in a circle pointing out how
incapable, uninformed, and generally useless they are compared to
everyone else there. <br>
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So if you ask DIRNSA to give a speech, what you get is he'll point
out that yes, he learned how to read, and at one point managed to
boot a couple VM's and own one of them. <br>
<br>
And once you get over that, you can listen to his actual talk, which
is pretty good really. It's prepared, of course, but there's some
vision in it deep down (which I think will go unrealized), of a
world where the NSA is a managed security service provider that
operates at wire speed to do its job. During the questions session
he demonstrates a rather interesting and subtle understanding of war
and things that are not war but still change state behavior
("Diplomatic, economic, informational") is his best phrase imo.<br>
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An interesting counterpoint to DIRNSA's talk is Bruce Schneier's RSA
talk here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrjgXHAYvxk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrjgXHAYvxk</a>
which is really better titled "what the hell happened in the last
ten years while I was asleep?!?" but is worth watching.<br>
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-dave<br>
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