Sony hack points to NSA's conflicting roles

[Commentary] Sony Pictures made a mistake in pulling the satire "The Interview" from movie theaters. But rather than look for help from China to solve the problem, President Barack Obama needs to look inward, at his own federal government, to address the broader security issues underlying this and other damaging hacking, whether foreign or domestic. The issue is the National Security Agency's conflicting mission, which makes it a perpetrator of what is a crime when it's done by a foreign government. The President either needs to separate the competing NSA missions or, more appropriately, direct the agency to start caring more about protecting American businesses than about spying on them.

[Dec 24]