I'm Ticked Off! No, I'm Not!

The article below details Obama's new plan to keep us safe (try not to laugh when you see those two words together: Obama + Safe) and just when you could get really hacked off about your right to privacy being violated, there's this sentence:

Homeland Security will then strip out identifying information and pass along data on new threats to NSA.

Huh?

Now, when Bush was President, all the liberals were up in arms about the Patriot Act. When Obama is President and signs a one year extension just a few days ago there's.... crickets. Nothing.

Now with this, I doubt anyone will know how to react! It's yet another "vote present" from Obama. "We're going to violate your right to privacy... but we're not going to do anything with the information." Huh?

You'd have to be a turnip to believe that this info is going to remain anonymous. Clearly Obama is counting on that. It's worked for him before!

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WALL STREET JOURNAL - MARCH 2, 2010, 11:00 PM ET

Details of “Einstein” Cyber Shield  Disclosed by White House

The Obama administration lifted the veil Tuesday on a highly-secretive set of policies to defend the U.S. from cyber attacks.


It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program declassified Tuesday provides more details of NSA’s role in a Homeland program known as Einstein.


The current version of the program is widely seen as providing meager protection against attack, but a new version being built will be more robust–largely because it’s rooted in NSA technology. The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary.


Homeland Security will then strip out identifying information and pass along data on new threats to NSA. It will also use threat information from NSA to better identify emerging cyber attacks.


NSA’s role is a careful balance because of the political battles that ensued over the agency’s role in domestic surveillance in the George W. Bush administration. Declassifying details of the NSA’s role, in a program initially developed during the Bush administration and continued in the Obama administration, will likely ignite new debates over privacy.


The White House’s new cyber-security chief, Howard Schmidt, announced the move to declassify the program in a speech at the RSA conference in San Francisco–his first major public address since assuming the post in January. He said addressing potential privacy concerns was one of the ten initial steps he planned to take. “We’re really paying attention, and we get it,” he said.