Dedicated to preserving foundational American Values in a time of rapid technological change. I am Kevin Bankston the policy director of the open Technology Institute which is the tech policy and technical modeling of new america where we are focused on building a stronger and more open internet for a stronger and more open society. I want to thank you for all coming here today and braving the heat or for tuning in via the webcast or cspan for todays panel Event National insecurity agency, how the nsa surveillance programs undermined Internet Security. Since they first note and lakes all the controversy around the nsa has been focused on its programs to collect phone records under section 215 of the patriot act and its moderating of internet under section 202 under the fisa amended that been focused on the debate over how to reform the surveillance statutes. Yet the nsa is also engaged in a wide variety of conduct that in our view is fundamentally threatening the basic security of the