NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’

Re:NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the America... by johngalt on Thursday June 06, 2013 @08:44PM (#5836401)

There's a discussion to be had here. If you're a foreign intelligence agency looking to commit espionage, how hard would it be to get someone inside a Verizon or AT&T? Imagine what type of pervasive data a potential adversary could gather via these means?

Something any major business with foreign competitors should consider before using cloud services or trusting telecom vendors.

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Re:NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the America... by tigger on Thursday June 06, 2013 @09:11PM (#5836517)

I would be very surprised if at least one foreign agency at least has not already hacked into both Verizon and AT&T ... one could argue that the US govt has at least been trying to do it (semi) legitimately just to keep up.

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Re:NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the America... by suredo on Thursday June 06, 2013 @11:28PM (#5837020)

maybe they should attack the perpetrators instead??

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Re:NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the America... by tigger on Thursday June 06, 2013 @11:40PM (#5837080)

Maybe indeed, but what was easier?

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Re:NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the America... by flyinRyan on Friday June 07, 2013 @01:02PM (#5840079)

But what good does it do?

"Oh look, the bad guys are spying on our people, what can we do?"

"Stop them!"

"We can't!"

"Ok, let's spy on them too then!"

If this seems like a logical conversation then change "spy on" to "rape" and see if it still makes sense.

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Re:NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the America... by suredo on Thursday June 06, 2013 @11:46PM (#5837099)

they could label them as terrorists and it becomes alot easier...

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Re:NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the America... by tigger on Friday June 07, 2013 @02:25AM (#5837569)

They're doing that now... bit too late.. But who's going to believe they needed a nuke to blast a few flies?

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Re:NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the America... by gilgoomesh on Thursday June 06, 2013 @08:51PM (#5836430)

Or impersonate the NSA and divert their data to your servers.

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