When President Obama took office, one of his talking points was that he wanted to analyze and probably overhaul the nation’s computer security systems, following a wave of attacks targeted military and government computer networks that really has yet to let up. Now details of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), colloquially known by the code-name “Einstein,” have been made public. As the Wall Street Journal notes, the current Homeland Security-run cybersecurity initiative has been weak at best. The new system brings in additional help in the form of the National Security Agency to overhaul and update the program. The new CNCI is broad and, in the eyes of many, invasive. It is designed to monitor all forms of electronic communication, including web browsing and email, with “indicators of cyber attacks” being passed on the the NSA for further analysis. How private will your messages be once the new Einstein goes live? Hard to say. The Obama administration says that personal and identifying details will be stripped out of data that’s handed over to the NSA… but wouldn’t doing that simply make it that much harder to figure out who’s behind a genuine threat to the country? Privacy concerns have become almost epidemic in recent years, but this move sounds an awful lot like a “No really, you can trust us not to abuse our power” play. The Einstein system was originally designed for use on internal federal computer networks but, if these plans are …