Former NSA chief: Snowden defenders are ‘twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex’ [View all]

[kpete]

Former NSA chief warns of cyber-terror attacks if Snowden apprehended
Michael Hayden, who also headed the CIA, speculates on global hacker response if Edward Snowden brought back to US

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The former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA speculated on Tuesday that hackers and transparency groups were likely to respond with cyber-terror attacks if the United States government apprehends whistleblower Edward Snowden.

"If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do?" said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran the NSA and then the CIA, referring to "nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years".

"They may want to come after the US government, but frankly, you know, the dot-mil stuff is about the hardest target in the United States," Hayden said, using a shorthand for US military networks. "So if they can't create great harm to dot-mil, who are they going after? Who for them are the World Trade Centers? The World Trade Centers, as they were for al-Qaida."

Hayden provided his speculation during a speech on cybersecurity to a Washington group, the Bipartisan Policy Center, in which he confessed to being deliberately provocative.



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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/06/nsa-director-cyber-terrorism-snowden?INTCMP=SRCH


well, they haven't been listening (tee hee hee) to this 62 year old who talks to the opposite sex on a regular basis
peace, kp