TENAFLY, N.J. – One of the security-related topics that has the least actual impact on enterprise security has been getting the most attention from the security press and the security Twitterverse: the Edward Snowden NSA surveillance disclosures. If you made a list of the top 100 risks to any company (or any individual) NSA intercepting their communications would never make the list.
This outrage over intelligence activities tends to happen in times of relative peace and freedom from local wars or terrorists flying airplanes into buildings. This is actually a good thing, because over-reach by intelligence agencies tends to happen during those same periods. To put this in perspective, after a brief visit to the 1600s, let?s look at an abbreviated history of the domestic surveillance pendulum swings over the past 75 years in the US:
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