NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software

Re:NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious soft... by pvnick on Saturday November 23, 2013 @12:54PM (#6786747)

I don't know anything about GCHQ, but I don't want British intelligence to have intimate details about my life stored in some nosql database, and I see it as an offensive maneuver by a foreign government from which my government fails to protect me. See my reply to tptacek's post sibling to yours for a general response to your inquiry.

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Re:NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious soft... by tedunangst on Saturday November 23, 2013 @02:13PM (#6787062)

I see it as an offensive maneuver by a foreign government from which my government fails to protect me.

Which is why you should be angry at your government for failing to protect you.

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Re:NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious soft... by tptacek on Saturday November 23, 2013 @12:56PM (#6786753)

Well, they do. Just like Russia and China. I agree it's offensive. Now what? Next you'll tell me governments routinely have foreigners killed.

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Re:NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious soft... by coldtea on Saturday November 23, 2013 @01:51PM (#6786951)

>Well, they do. Just like Russia and China.

I seriously doubt that. Russia, for example, could not care less about 99.9% of western citizens (whereas for western spying agencies, those are potential dissidents to be kept on check).

And even if they cared, what exactly would they do with that information? It's not like they are particularly powerful, imperialist or try to play global cop (post USSR). It's also not like they arrange puppet politicians and governments in foreign countries, as western powers are known to do.

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