US Spy Agencies Will Start Sharing More Cyber-Threat Intelligence with Private Companies (msn.com) 17
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal:
U.S. spy agencies will share more intelligence with U.S. companies, nongovernmental organizations and academia under a new strategy released this week that acknowledges concerns over new threats, such as another pandemic and increasing cyberattacks. The National Intelligence Strategy, which sets broad goals for the sprawling U.S. intelligence community, says that spy agencies must reach beyond the traditional walls of secrecy and partner with outside groups to detect and deter supply-chain disruptions, infectious diseases and other growing transnational threats. The intelligence community "must rethink its approach to exchanging information and insights," the strategy says.
The U.S. government in recent years has begun sharing vast amounts of cyber-threat intelligence with U.S. companies, utilities and others who are often the main targets of foreign hackers, as well as information on foreign-influence operations with social-media companies... The emphasis on greater intelligence sharing is part of a broader trend toward declassification that the Biden administration has pursued.
"The new strategy is meant to guide 18 U.S. intelligence agencies with an annual budget of about $90 billion... "
The U.S. government in recent years has begun sharing vast amounts of cyber-threat intelligence with U.S. companies, utilities and others who are often the main targets of foreign hackers, as well as information on foreign-influence operations with social-media companies... The emphasis on greater intelligence sharing is part of a broader trend toward declassification that the Biden administration has pursued.
"The new strategy is meant to guide 18 U.S. intelligence agencies with an annual budget of about $90 billion... "
Whoever is running the show is moving (Score:3)
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conservatives no longer have to provide evidence. they are the ultimate purveyors of victim porn, the conspiracies are always against them and every-fucking-thing on earth is a conspiracy.
the fact their eggs came out a little dry is a deep state cabal plot to hide the truth. its fucking pathetic.
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The fact that private companies are not subject to FOIA requests. Ergo, you can conceal information from the public in US via moving it from public entities subject to FOIA obligations to private entities that aren't.
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Anything that gets sent from a US government entity to a private entity as part of government business would be subject to FOIA, and most of the possible exemptions will not apply if the transfer is outside the scope of a classified contract. If it's part of a contract, the only exemptions that might apply are the same ones that would apply if the government was doing the contracted work itself.
So even in the most secrecy-preserving case, this will not limit FOIA disclosures, and in most cases it will expa
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I don't think you read and comprehended the story. You can't FOIA request something that private entity did work after being empowered by the government agency. You can only ask them what government agency told them. The work they do based on it, even when it fully mirrors the agency's own work is their own and not subject to FOIA disclosure.
The thing in the story that matters is not "we give intelligence", it's "they will act on the intelligence we give them".
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Good start (Score:1)
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Now eliminate ip. Or don't. IDGAF
"Do or do not."
--Yoda
Yep, those are the choices.
Good start (Score:4, Insightful)
the culture of secrecy only helps provide a weakness for adversaries to exploit.
About time. (Score:4, Interesting)
Previously the idea was that when they find a vulnerability, they keep it secret so they can exploit it themselves. I guess somebody finally realized that the harm to us done by letting a vulnerability remain unpatched outweighs the benefit of using it to spy on people we don't like.
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What could go wrong (Score:2)