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1. Comment - USA Today Backs Off Initial NSA Story

   (Jul 3, 2006 - 3:43 PM)

   biggest problem is maintaining the balance between security and safety and public freedoms. Up until all the events everyone knows about, maintaining the balance was easy. However, considering that there's a chance, no matter how small, that someone inside the country could be plotting some crap, they had to step up the security. The biggest problem is that with systems like this is that their failures are public, while their successes never see the light. This makes me think of a well-functioning IT department. When they manage to patch all servers, remove all viruses and defend the network from attacks, no one realizes that. But, when someone tries to start using some file sharing app and notices that ports are closed, they instantly start to scream that IT department is interfering with their life.
   The same story here. As much as i am against even the concept of this, does any one of you have better suggestions on how to monitor communication channels for possible problems?
   
   This is the problem of the world we live in -- people can move around freely, some good and some bad. What can you do?