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Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by pier25 on Sunday April 16, 2017 @07:17PM (#14128129)
Breaking safety in the name of safety is like going to war in the name of peace.
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Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by emmelaich on Sunday April 16, 2017 @08:00PM (#14128340)
And of course it works. Well.

Some of the Middle East countries want to be spied on. Imagine if a Saudi prince started embezzling. Who inside SA would even attempt to investigate.

With US spying on SWIFT, the Americans can leak a few juicy details to a few people of power in Saudi Arabia and the prince gets told to stop it.

No embarrassment for anyone, no convictions.

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Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by bigbugbag on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:17AM (#14130095)
Nice hypothetical scenario. According to Saudi prince status in the US and US usual use of such insider information I sincerely doubt this is what would happen or that's the reason why the NSA hacked SWIFT.
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