I saw the talk. Much of the talk made the assumption that the hacker community has the same goals and values of the NSA. This NEEDS to be justified.
This is a hacker community and while not a single minded collective I believe there are many popular views that are diametrically opposed to some of the goals of the NSA. He mentioned that he wished the internet would be perfectly secure and then went on to mention how this would protect American IP laws. His definition of secure internet does not include values such as censorship resistance or freedom of expression/information.
He also tried to tell everything how great it would be if we all had IDS's that reported back to the NSA in realtime.
We were not allowed to ask questions. They brought up a paper with questions that must have been determined BEFORE the talk happened which isn't fair to the attendees.
I wish there was a DEFCON panel to discuss this. Everyone just clapped and seemed cool with him from my perspective. I'm not against the director talking at DEFCON, but I don't think we shouldn't be accepting his ideas without more public criticism and discourse.
This is a hacker community and while not a single minded collective I believe there are many popular views that are diametrically opposed to some of the goals of the NSA. He mentioned that he wished the internet would be perfectly secure and then went on to mention how this would protect American IP laws. His definition of secure internet does not include values such as censorship resistance or freedom of expression/information.
He also tried to tell everything how great it would be if we all had IDS's that reported back to the NSA in realtime.
We were not allowed to ask questions. They brought up a paper with questions that must have been determined BEFORE the talk happened which isn't fair to the attendees.
I wish there was a DEFCON panel to discuss this. Everyone just clapped and seemed cool with him from my perspective. I'm not against the director talking at DEFCON, but I don't think we shouldn't be accepting his ideas without more public criticism and discourse.