Will the NSA's activities handicap IT in the United States?

From TechRepublic

“NSA spying has given U.S. IT a black eye, possibly triggered a recession in its tech industry, and fueled data protectionist movements. 

Excepting revelations on NSA spying, 2013 was a good year for the technology industry, particularly in the United States. Silicon Valley experienced a strong resurgence on all fronts, with innovative new startups at the consumer and enterprise level and venture funding and new ideas reminiscent of the heady dotcom days of the late 1990s. In the corporate sector, after years of frozen budgets, many companies once again started hiring and spending money on internal IT, funding initiatives ranging from rudimentary application modernization to cutting-edge big data to digital marketing initiatives.”

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Understanding Snowden's impact on IT... in 2 minutes

When Edward Snowden leaked 200,000 classified documents that uncovered the NSA's digital surveillance programs, it rocked the IT world. We break down the three biggest impacts.

The Snowden effect: NSA leaker shakes up corporate security

 

From ABA Banking Journal

“Experts agree, the human element is as much an issue as advanced technology.

It must have made bank security officers everywhere cringe when it was reported that Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, convinced about two dozen fellow agency employees to provide him their login credentials.

As Brian Feldman, writing for The Atlantic, points out, “A support worker asking for a user’s login credentials is actually a huge security red flag.” Furthermore, Feldman says, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo!, Facebook, and AOL—technology giants that NSA allegedly has back door entry into—all state clearly in their security pages, in one wording or another: Never share your password with anyone.”

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