Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
by Buge on Sunday April 16, 2017 @09:21PM
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It's easy to get away with it if you don't have an extradition treaty with the US. But as soon as you go on vacation to a country that does have a treaty...
https://qz.com/954265/russian-hacker-pyotr-levashov-arrested...
Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
by coldtea on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:05PM
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>It's easy to get away with it if you don't have an extradition treaty with the US.
It's not about being extradited. It's about your country being bombed, economically pressured, embargoed, messed with diplomatically, through your neighbors given preferential treatment and arms, etc.
Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
by sigmar on Sunday April 16, 2017 @11:41PM
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Did the U.S. get away with it? Sort of, maybe? But we _are_ commenting on a wired article about it.
Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
by coldtea on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:06PM
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Getting away it and "having a wired article about doing it" are totally compatible things.
The kind of not getting away with it I mean involves the impact of the world's #1 military and economy fucking your country over in retribution.
It's not like the US would even feel a pinch if some middle eastern country embargoes its products. Now reverse that, or add even more extreme measures to it (doing to Iraq level measures) and you get the point.
No, but doing anything with the data, and being able to get away with doing it, is.