Government networks come under increased monitoring, will they catch alleged purchasers of child porn in the Pentagon?
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By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie The post-WikiLeaks era is bringing significantly heightened surveillance of classified government networks in an attempt to prevent more “willful mischief,” but what will this mean (if anything) for the users of child pornography in the Pentagon? "USSTRATCOM/USCYBERCOM is monitoring use of the SIPRNet and now has a mechanism for reporting certain anomalous behaviors for appropriate remediation," said Thomas A. Ferguson, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence) and Teresa Takai, the Department of Defense's Chief Information Officer. For those who are unaware, SIPRNet is the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network used by the Department of Defense and the State Department when transmitting classified information. “We have established the first formal security oversight and assessment program to determine levels of compliance with rules of access to classified networks,” they said in response to questions for the record from a March 10, 2011 hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on “Information Sharing in the Era of WikiLeaks.” They claim that the mere knowledge of the existence of such a monitoring capability will act to deter acts of “willful mischief,” although this is the same logic behind what some might call “Nuisance Abatement Vehicles," which I like to characterize as "mobile police harassment platforms." The fact is, this is not actually backed up by any hard data and criminals will undoubtedly find a way to circumvent whatever safeguards are in place if they really want to. Interestingly, Corin R. Stone of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence stated that part of the plan will focus on improving the ability to track individual users across networks via stronger user authentication along with “responsible controls on removable media, and provide strong website authentication for classified fabrics — all to provide greater control over access to classified information.” This makes me wonder if, with this new ability to better track the activities of individuals on government networks, the Department of Defense will finally make the effort to track down the suspected users of child pornography within their ranks. http://ping.fm/ca8lp I'm honestly not going to hold my breath on that one, as if the Department of Defense has proven anything, it is that they do not care about actually protecting Americans but instead holding on to their power and milking the people of the United States for every possible tax dollar. “The FBI and CIA have robust insider threat programs in place for tracking the specific information accessed by users of their systems and detecting, to varying degrees, suspicious user behavior (e.g., excessive file accesses or data downloads) and alerting security personnel to take action. Several agencies (e.g., NGA, NSA, NRO) are maturing their audit and insider threat capabilities, while others still lag behind,” Stone wrote in response to questions posed by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Stone also said that the WikiLeaks incident emphasized that the government needs to “raise the bar” in terms of their capabilities to track specific information accessed by users. Just last week, Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, “The potential for trusted US Government and contractor insiders using their authorized access to personnel, facilities, information, equipment, networks or information systems in order to cause great harm is becoming an increasingly serious threat to national security.” Hopefully once these systems are in place they will actually use them to track down the truly sick individuals who allegedly purchased child pornography. I don't want a single cent of mine going into the pockets of people so unbelievably demented, and if the watchful eye of Big Brother looking over government networks is what it takes, so be it. After all, since we are constantly being subjected to Big Brother technology by our government, why shouldn't they get a dose of their own medicine?