[ExI] Wise Donald Trump

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 2:39 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Classified data
> ​ ​
> is allowed to be transmitted by the internet provided that the
> ​
> information is encrypted
> ​ ​
> in a NSA approved way
> ​ ​
> and there is a firewall
> ​on the computers involved ​
> that meets NSA specifications.


Sorry, that's not true. NSA-approved encryption is required on *classified*
networks like JWICS (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Worldwide_Intelligence_Communications_System)
and SIPRnet, but that doesn't mean classified encrypted data can be
transmitted via the public Inteernet.

If the Internet were not allowed the government would be
> ​even​
> ​
> more dysfunctional than it is.
> ​It's true there are a few specially dedicated networks that are
> independent of the internet for hyper-secret things like launch codes, but
> for the vast majority of secret stuff a dedicated line wouldn't be
> practical, there's too much information and too many nodes.
>

John, you're a pretty smart guy. You should be smart enough to realize when
you don't know what you're talking about.

-Dave
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