What should we make of the global
ransomware attacks which happened today?
We’ve documented that the
intelligence services intentionally create digital vulnerabilities, then
intentionally leave them open … leaving us exposed and insecure.
Washington’s Blog asked the highest level NSA whistleblower
ever* – Bill Binney – what he thinks of the attacks.
Binney told us:
This is what I called short sighted finite thinking on the part
of the Intelligence Community managers.
This is also what I called (for some years now) a swindle of the
tax payers. First, they find or create weaknesses then they don’t fix these
weaknesses so we are all vulnerable to attack.
Then, when attacks occur, they say they need more money for
cyber security — a total swindle!!! [Indeed.]
This is only the second swindle of the public. The first was
terror efforts by saying we need to collect everything to stop terror — another
lie. They said that because to collect everything takes lots and lots of money.
Then, when the terror attack occurs, they say they need more
money, people and data to stop terror. Another swindle from the start. [The war
on terror is a “self-licking ice cream cone”, because it creates many
more terrorists than it stops.]
And, finally, the latest swindle “THE RUSSIANS DID IT.” This is
an effort to start a new cold war which means another bigger swindle of US tax
payers.
For cyber security, I would suggest the president order NSA, CIA
and any others to fix the cyber problems they know about; then, maybe we will
start to have some cyber security.
The bottom line is that our intelligence services should start
concentrating on actually defending us, rather than
focusing their resources on offensive mischief.
* Binney is the NSA executive who created the agency’s
mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as the senior
technical director within the agency, who managed six thousand NSA
employees, the 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the
agency and the NSA’s best-ever analyst and code-breaker, who mapped out
the Soviet command-and-control structure before anyone else knew how, and so
predicted Soviet invasions before they happened (“in the 1970s, he decrypted
the Soviet Union’s command system, which provided the US and its allies with
real-time surveillance of all Soviet troop movements and Russian atomic
weapons”).
Binney
is the real McCoy. As we noted in 2013, Binney has been interviewed by
virtually all of the mainstream media, including CBS, ABC, CNN, New
York Times, USA Today,
Fox News,
PBS and many
others.
