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Re:FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Sno... by dm2 on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @03:45PM (#5707543)
What about the Chinese government having access to US govt systems for several years without anyone knowing? Could leaking nuclear, space, or strategic plans to a foreign government hurt anyone? Yes. All of a sudden the plans for bombs and ships we've spent billions to develop are handed over and free to use. That's not a good thing.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-07/chinese-cyber-spyin...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_bomb

and of course:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

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Re:FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Sno... by jlarocco on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @06:24PM (#5708790)
What about it? How will recording and data mining text messages fix that problem?

Furthermore, if the government has already screwed up their systems and made them publicly available in the first place, how can you be so sure they'll competently implement their surveillance systems?

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Re:FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Sno... by dm2 on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @07:42PM (#5709157)
Because for every spy program we know about, how many are out there that we don't know about?
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Re:FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Sno... by jlarocco on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @08:06PM (#5709285)
Will an infinite number of spy programs solve the problem of the government putting critical infrastructure on the internet?
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