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Re:Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation by koonsolo on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @05:31PM (#23330292)
Belgian here. We are one of the most highly taxed countries, so you really wonder were all that money is going.

Belgium is as divided as the EU itself. We have 6 distict governments: federal, flemish, walloon, french, german and brussels. That doesn't help in any way.

The things that happen here are sometimes too crazy to mention, like the time a serialkiller escaped because the 2 cops guarding him didn't do their job, and also didn't have any bullets in their guns to stop him. Surreal.

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Re:Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation by gipsies on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:05PM (#23332178)
What's actually interesting is that they have some world-top cryptographers and security researchers (e.g. invented AES and SHA-3). So part of that money goes to academia, and with good results :) The government agencies are lagging behind though.
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Re:Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation by koonsolo on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:23AM (#23334448)
We definitely have the people. But even in academia the good ones will go to US because the budgets they get for research are way higher.
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