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Re:Stop the Border Surveillance Bills by musage on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:38AM (#15399058)
Compartmentalize and abstract, keep telling yourself that "if I don't do it, someone else will do it (and they might do it worse than me so it's really best if I do it first)".

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-pentagon-is-buil...

I know the above sounds kinda hyperbolic, but there is a lot of substantiated stuff in there that doesn't need much extrapolation to have the potential to go reeeeeally bad at, well, the flip of a switch, political or otherwise.

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Re:Stop the Border Surveillance Bills by speedplane on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:21AM (#15399206)
In South Korea's case, I think the rationalization is more obvious. It's more like, "we have a maniac at our border itching to invade, our citizens are scared, we need to intimidate them back."
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Re:Stop the Border Surveillance Bills by tgragnato on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @06:54AM (#15399548)
It probably has more to do with counterintelligence/defence rather than intimidation.

[http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/21/asia/north-korea-spies/ind...] > Spies and human intelligence play a big role in maintaining Kim Jong Un's regime.

NK "does not care" about security measures at SK borders.

[http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1329421/north-korean-s...] > Nearly half of all North Korean spies arrested in South Korea over the past 10 years entered the country disguised as defectors, said a South Korean lawmaker on Friday.

SK "does not need" to engage in reassurance countermeasures because of the population.

[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/south-...] > Residents of South Korea who have friends abroad often share inside jokes about how outsiders are way more alarmed than everyone here, who would actually be wiped out if Kim Jong-un ever ordered a nuclear attack on this country.

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Re:Stop the Border Surveillance Bills by mtgx on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:42AM (#15399069)
"I'm just following orders."
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