securely? This was not the first time as in 2013, data from NSA was also leaked. If this had happened once, where the NSA can justify and demonstrate that they have put further security measures in place to prevent this from occurring again, then it would raise less questions. However, because this has happened with the NSA twice, it could change the public’s perception because it appears there are no security measures in place to prevent this kind of security breach from occurring. To the public, this could suggest a lack of care and disregard by the government about the data that they hold. It solidifies to some members of the public, the view about this these monitoring schemes not being right. Furthermore, it contradicts the fact that this is a security measure; how can a security measure be so vulnerable?

Another conspiracy linked to the United States was for the movie “The Interview”, where the DNS (Domain Name Server) was targeted. [12] DNS severs are for translation of URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) into IP addresses. This is very useful for Hollywood as an industry as it would stop piracy completely, because without the DNS there is no way to access the website. North Korea then seeing the release of the film threated the USA with Cyber Attacks. Seeing as the NSA network can be exploited, as done by the ‘The Shadow Brokers’, then any group of talented hackers could possibly do the same and hence gain access to the public’s data. This would put everyone in the United States at risk. So, the same question arises again, how can government monitoring schemes say they are keeping the public safe when if their security is compromised, they endanger lives?

It is known that China and USA have engaged in cyber-attacks against one another. In 2013 there were a series of attacks launched by China on the USA’s defence servicers and government.[13] Amidst of all the attacks it was revealed that USA Pentagon security measures are weak. In the Washington Post it was stated that:

“The Pentagon cannot be confident that its military computer systems are not compromised because some use components made in countries with high-end cyber-capabilities, the report says. It says only a few countries, including China and Russia, have the skills to create vulnerabilities in protected systems by interferi