Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
by travmatt on Sunday April 16, 2017 @08:59PM
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It seems like you're letting facts get in the way of a perfectly good chance to be outraged over completely sensationalized hand wringing.
Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
by bigbugbag on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:25PM
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Wow, that's a nice way of pulling HN quality down, grats !
Allow to offer a single correction
> That's what countries do - if they can.
It's not countries but spying agencies that need to justify their existence now that the cold war is over. Or governments.
But I sincerely doubt that worldwide a national referendum about "should we use our resources and power to spy on other countries and try to control foreign government" would get close to a majority of yes in most countries around the world apart maybe in the US and north korea and maybe a few others. And even for the US I'm not so sure.
Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
by newdayrising on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:10PM
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Someone disagrees with you so you act like a child and tell them they're bringing the "quality down" on HN? Tip: If you want people to take you seriously, act like an adult.
They are doing this, and yet, no war. So what does that do to your claim?
> If it was Palestine who was spying on US banking systems the US military would be killing left and right until nothing but corpses would remain,
Oh please, you must know nothing about geopolitics to think this is true. I'm 100% certain Palestine spies on Israel as much as they possibly can, and Israel does the same to them.
I doubt Palestine spies on the US, but only because it's not in their interests, not because they are worried about being killed.
> Gathering this information seem to have much more to do with controlling foreign goverments than with preventing terrorism.
And? Is that bad or something? That's what countries do - if they can.
You might wish you lived in a utopia where everyone was super nice to everyone else, and no one took anything not theirs.
But in the real world if people can take power, they will. It would be stupid for any country not to do anything they can to stop or manage that.
> there are lots of countries which have suffered many more terrorist attacks in the last 5 years and don't use it ad an excuse to fuck with everyone else in the planet.
You really believe that the US is the only country that spies?