NSA to screen civilian computer networks–AT&T first taker for Einstein 3
NSA really likes the iPhone traffic on AT&T.
The Obama administration is going to announce that they will be following the Bush era plan to use the National Security Agency (NSA) to screen traffic of private Internet companies, so says the Washington Post.
Under a classified pilot program approved during the Bush administration, NSA data and hardware would be used to protect the networks of some civilian government agencies. Part of an initiative known as Einstein 3, the pilot called for telecommunications companies to route the Internet traffic of civilian government agencies through a monitoring box that would search for and block malicious computer codes.
Some technical people question whether it is possible to shield out private Internet traffic from those directed at US government websites.
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