Privacy Group Sues to Get Records About NSA-Google Relationship

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via The L.A. Times.

[snip]

The National Security Agency should divulge information about its reported
agreement with Google Inc. to help the Internet company defend itself
against foreign cyber attacks, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by a
privacy group.

The ad hoc and secretive nature of Google's arrangement with the federal
spy agency also spotlights what some experts said was the lack of a clear
federal plan to deal with the growing vulnerability of U.S. computer
infrastructure to cyber intrusions launched from foreign countries. At risk
are power grids, banks and other crucial public services.

"We have a faith-based approach, in that we pray every night nothing bad
will happen," said James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, a Washington think tank.

In January, Google announced that it had been the victim of "a highly
sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure
originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual
property."

A month later, newspapers reported that Google had begun cooperating with
the NSA, the spy agency in charge of defending the U.S. military from such
attacks. Google, according to reports, enlisted the NSA, which has a vast
electronic surveillance capability and a trove of cyber-warfare experts, to
help trace the source of the attack and take steps to prevent future
intrusions.

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"We pray every night..."

WTF?

More:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nsa-google-20100914,0,5669294.story

Enjoy.

- - ferg

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