Loss of Privacy

Capella University is now offering an online Master’s degree in Homeland Security. If you’re just starting out, you can get a Bachelor’s degree in Homeland Security as well.

Capella’s MS in Homeland Security prepares you to be a leader in this growing field by equipping you with vital skills in homeland security preparedness, mitigation, and management; cross-functional and media communications; infrastructure, cyber, and border security; and threat analysis and resolution. You will learn from faculty who are leaders in the field, with experience working directly for or with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and other federal, state, local, and tribal agencies. To strengthen the collaboration skills important to managing crisis situations, you’ll participate in Capella’s cutting- edge simulation, Riverbend City, where you will step into various public service leadership roles. By the end of the program, you will have a professional portfolio that demonstrates your homeland security skills and proves your understanding of the concepts that qualify you to be a leader in the field. People who earn this degree often pursue leadership positions in homeland security, emergency management, law enforcement, business continuity, information security, and other public and private sector security and crisis management roles.

I think if I were rich, I’d go ahead and get this degree just because it’s so damned funny. It’s just hard to take such a degree seriously when everything about the “university” screams diploma mill.

Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to investigative reports.

The investigations have included employees of the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — which deal with some of the most sensitive work in intelligence and defense — among other organizations within the Defense Department.

Read more at Boston.com.

The National Security Agency and Google are reportedly teaming up in an effort to combat cyber attacks. The AP’s Faryl Ury reports.

A surveillance program authorized by the Bush administration to allow the National Security Agency to spy on the internet activities of federal employees is now being expanded. The Obama administration is planning to expand the Einstein internet surveillance software.

The National Security Agency has a secret database, named Pinwale, and they have been domestically spying on Americans for quite some time.  Included in the database is the intercepted, private emails on many Americans, including former president, Bill Clinton.