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    initiated it all. Edward Snowden was a high school dropout that attended Anne Arundel Community College to study computers on two separate occasions. It was after his second time attending the college that he received his job as a security guard with the National Security Agency, which then turned into a job at the CIA with an information-technology job. He left the CIA two years later to work for both Dell and Booz Allen as a private contractor and subsequently in both places as a…

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    signed the Protect America Act in 2007. It gave the the U.S. to surveil “suspected foreign targets” without warrants. The PRISM Program soon came after and was continued by the Obama Administration. Barack Obama stated “You can’t have 100 percent security and then also have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. You know, we’re going to have to make some choices as a society.” on June 7, 2013. Edward Snowden was very critical of this belief and practice, and so am I. What Snowden did…

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    for up to 30 years in prison by the federal prosecutors in Virginia. He is on the run from the American authorities, and the White house spokesman, Jay Carney said, “he is not a human rights activist. He is not a dissident” (Herzenhorn, 2013). The National Secret Administration also claims that their programs are constitutional and that their aim is to protect the public from terrorist attacks (Macaskill & Dance, 2013). Meaning that Edward Snowden should be seen as a criminal, a spy, that has…

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    While Edward Snowden was working for the NSA under a subcontractor, he noticed many questionable and disturbing methods used by the government to spy on and collect data from its citizens. He decided to collect as many incriminating documents as possible, leak them to the press while in China. During his stay in China, newspapers like the UK’s Guardian, and the Washington Times, released the documents leaked that showed the NSA’s real time information collection system from American citizens via…

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    right that is inalienable, he also explained how he thought that undercover surveillance is destroying the 20th century. In an email he said “The NSA is not the Stasi.” referencing a security service in East Germany. In another email Snowden said “We should always remember that the danger to societies from security services is not that they will spontaneously decide to embrace mustache twirling and jackboots to bear us bodily into dark places, but that the slowly shifting foundation of policy…

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    Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (Deflem, McDonough, 2015). It makes a person wonder if the name came first, or if the desire to have something seem super patriotic was enough to create a title to fit with those letters. “The American public is skeptical of the Patriot Act. More than 180 governments have urged a rollback of its expansive powers.” (Jost, 2003 p.904). People question the act because it was created so quickly which caused it to be made…

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    posture that would offer the United States the security needed in the event of an escalated war.…

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    Before a security manager can “sell” a strategy, the manager must first have a keen awareness of what the organization does and how security fits into it. The security manager must fully understand the organizational mission and what processes within the organization are needed to accomplish the mission. The security manager must be able to identify organizational assets, liabilities and threats. The vulnerability of system processes are identified and rated on a scale as to likelihood.…

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    be considered an invasion of privacy if the community has nothing to hide. The National Security Agency is a very important part in keeping the nation protected, but many Americans feel as though they invade the privacy of the citizens too much. The main objectives of the National Security Agency is information assurance, signals intelligence, research analysis, and secret communications. (Taylor). The National Security has certain objectives to try to keep the nation protected, but they also…

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    Shane Harris in his book @War: The Rise of the Internet-Military Complex (2015) explains that the government is partnering with large technology companies in order to carry out espionage and digital attacks that have real world consequences. Harris supports his claims by describing the operations and programs the US engaged in alongside private technology companies based on public knowledge and on interviews conducted with top US officials. The author’s purpose is to inform the audience about…

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