Re: Reactions to reported NSA PRISM program

[Kevin Halgren <kevin.halgren () WASHBURN EDU>]

While I appreciate the discussions, I really interested what, if any, 
response you hear from the broader campus community on the matter.  
Sometimes with things like this I expect a riot, particularly from 
faculty or students and instead just get a "meh."

Do the educated masses even care?

My suggested response in the event anyone asks my CIO about this is as 
follows:

   "We view this as a legal issue, not a technology or service provider
   issue.  There is nothing to indicate that anything unlawful has
   occurred even if all these allegations are true, nor could an
   internal system protect our users communications against lawful
   interception any more than Google or Microsoft.  We may not like
   what current law allows and can protest against it, but in the end
   we are obliged to obey these laws."

Kevin
On 6/7/2013 8:02 AM, Kevin Halgren wrote:
> For those of you already using Google or Microsoft cloud e-mail 
> solutions, I'll be curious to hear the reactions on your campuses to 
> this news.
>
> I believe the tech companies are telling the truth when they say they 
> don't provide direct backdoor access into their systems and that the 
> PRISM presentation may overstate the cooperation and capabilities of 
> the system, however that doesn't preclude the government from abusing 
> existing systems and capabilities e.g. those under CALEA lawful 
> intercept capabilities.
>
> Kevin