General (Ret.) Michael Hayden speaks at the National Security Law Journal (NSLJ) symposium on cybersecurity April 2, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
Recode: The ‘golden age of electronic surveillance’ is ending, says former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden
As the intelligence community shifts to new tactics, the Trump administration is creating an “age of lies.”
At America’s intelligence agencies, there are three ways to “steal secrets,” says former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden: Humans, signals and imagery. And for nearly two decades, signals were abundant as technology proliferated around the world.
“When I became the director of NSA in 1999, we were moving into the digital age,” Hayden said on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. “What we saw — and we said this to ourselves at NSA — ‘It’s going to be hard to keep up. It’s going to be really technically challenging, but if we do it even half well, this is going to be the golden age of electronic surveillance.’”
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WNU Editor: A ‘golden age of electronic surveillance’ .... I have no reason to believe there ever was a ‘golden age of electronic surveillance’.
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I have respect for the man, but his point is more political than anything else.
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