Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished 297
First time accepted submitter MetalliQaZ writes "Last week, Dr. Joseph Bonneau learned that he had won the NSA's first annual "Science of Security (SoS) Competition." The competition, which aims to honor the best 'scientific papers about national security' as a way to strengthen NSA collaboration with researchers in academia, honored Bonneau for his paper on the nature of passwords. And how did Bonneau respond to being honored by the NSA? By expressing, in an honest and bittersweet blog post, his revulsion at what the NSA has become: 'Simply put, I don't think a free society is compatible with an organisation like the NSA in its current form.'"
Re:Don't forget (Score:3, Funny)
Overridden by the NSA being the bad guys on Stargate.
Re:Don't forget (Score:5, Funny)
The engineers are mere henchmen for the Brin. All hail the Brin and his manly spy glasses!
Profiling fail (Score:5, Funny)
If the NSA cannot even accurately profile somebody they are about to give an award to and predict his response, what good are they? It seems all this massive surveillance is not only hugely immoral and dangerous, it also seems to be completely broken with regard to its stated mission. WTF are they collecting this data for?
Re:Don't forget (Score:2, Funny)
I say that Bayer should select their advertising agencies and brokers little more carefully.
Re:Don't forget (Score:4, Funny)
> All hail the Brin and his manly spy glasses!
Ah, but they are countered by the (other) Brin and his kiln-baked doppelgangers!