The National Security Agency claims a report this week inaccurately asserted that the agency’s so-called Perfect Citizen program is designed to monitor critical U.S. cybernetworks. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that an NSA-headed project dubbed “Pefect Citizen” is aimed at monitoring networks for America’s critical infrastructure and that the data gathered may be used to help private companies investigate cyberattacks. “There is no monitoring activity involved, and no sensors are employed in this endeavor,” NSA spokesperson Judith Emmel told TechNewsWorld.
Either this article is a clever joke, or the most clandestine, sophisticated, misunderstood, orwellian governmental agency in the history of dna has chosen the name "Perfect Citizen" for a public, necessarily enigmatic and potentially intrusive, public program. I'd like to have been in that meeting.
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NSA: Perfect Citizen Is All About R&D, Not Eavesdropping
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 9, 2010 11:57 AMThe National Security Agency claims a report this week inaccurately asserted that the agency’s so-called Perfect Citizen program is designed to monitor critical U.S. cybernetworks. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that an NSA-headed project dubbed “Pefect Citizen” is aimed at monitoring networks for America’s critical infrastructure and that the data gathered may be used to help private companies investigate cyberattacks. “There is no monitoring activity involved, and no sensors are employed in this endeavor,” NSA spokesperson Judith Emmel told TechNewsWorld.