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Re:NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious soft... by tedunangst on Saturday November 23, 2013 @02:17PM (#6787069)
What does illegal mean in the context of government? The government decides what's illegal. If you want to declare some government's action illegal, you need to find a bigger government to impose their laws on the little government.
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Re:NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious soft... by grey-area on Saturday November 23, 2013 @03:12PM (#6787257)
If you live in a nation of laws, i.e. some form of functioning democracy, the people decide what is legal through their representatives, and this can change gradually as attitudes shift. The government is supposed to be an instrument of the people, not the other way around.
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Re:NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious soft... by tedunangst on Saturday November 23, 2013 @03:17PM (#6787278)
I assume the parent is talking about the USG spying on or murdering other not-US people, in which case the people of the US have more or less decided that's what they want.
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