Techdirt takes apart his statement here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130917/02391824549/nsa-needs-to-give-its-rank-and-file-new-talking-points-defending-surveillance-old-ones-are-stale.shtml
NSA Needs To Give Its Rank-and-File New Talking Points Defending Surveillance; The Old Ones Are Stale from the that's-not-really-going-to-cut-it dept by Mike Masnick, Tue, Sep 17th 2013 It would appear that the NSA's latest PR trick is to get out beyond the top brass -- James Clapper, Keith Alexander, Michael Hayden and Robert Litt haven't exactly been doing the NSA any favors on the PR front lately -- and get some commentary from "the rank and file." ZDNet apparently agreed to publish a piece from NSA mathemetician/ cryptanalyst Roger Barkan in which he defends the NSA using a bunch of already debunked talking points. What's funny is that many of these were the talking points that the NSA first tried out back in June and were quickly shown to be untrue. However, let's take a look. It's not that Barkan is directly lying... it's just that he's setting up strawmen to knock down at a record pace. John _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography