Beau & Kelly Howard

If they’re not now, they will be. Basically, Homeland Security is going to be scanning the content of all your emails, scrubbing the identifying information and forwarding the substance on to the NSA. Sounds pretty American, huh? No.

The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary.

Homeland Security will then strip out identifying information and pass along data on new threats to NSA. It will also use threat information from NSA to better identify emerging cyber attacks.

WSJ – Details of “Einstein” Cyber Shield Disclosed by White House