Re:Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated b...
by stale2002 on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:18PM
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If the people working for the NSA don't want to go to prison, then maybe they should stop committing treason by breaking our constitution and illegally spying on Americans through illegal programs.
Don't do the crime if you cant do the time.
Personally, I'd rather our military NOT be full of people who are willing to do this kind of thing.
If this discussion was about missiles, and the gov agency in charge of the missiles were using them on Americans, I'd say that they should go to jail as well.
You are right. These cyber exploits are weapons. And they should stop using those weapons on Americans, as a multitude of leaks have shown that they do, through mass spying and mass data collection programs.
Re:Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated b...
by sillysaurus3 on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:21PM
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It's not productive to reduce the argument to this extreme. There's no way for the NSA to do what the NSA does without searching for exploits and weaponizing them. That's the whole reason to have an NSA.
They are military. It was a cyberweapon. That's the point of a cyber weapon. Russians stole it from the NSA. Yes, that's incompetence, but an attacker only has to get lucky once. It's much harder to defend a cyberweapon than a tomahawk missile.
Does that mean we shouldn't build cyberweapons? No. That's just how cyberweapons are. That's the reality we live in now, and the world will just have to deal with it. There's nothing to be done, is there? Not unless you're suggesting that computers should never be used for offensive capabilities, which from a game theory perspective means that country will be powerless in the digital arena.