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Re:RSA protests by DEF CON organizations, Code Pink draw ire by unethical_ban on Thursday February 27, 2014 @02:37AM (#7310883)
The guy came off as somewhat of a twat based on that. OK, people are dying in Africa. Does that make NSA spying ok?

He ended a little better by making the point that we should be doing more than just talking, we should be building technical defenses against such things as NSA spying. It's a reasonable point, but I think he was just trying to be edgy in his talk.

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Re:RSA protests by DEF CON organizations, Code Pink draw ire by SimHacker on Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:59AM (#7312486)
If the NSA put their resources towards educating and empowering third world children instead of perpetuating their oppression and spying on them, they could easily fund and equip the "One Supercomputer Per Child" project.
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Re:RSA protests by DEF CON organizations, Code Pink draw ire by rodgerd on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:14AM (#7310995)
Given that any number of people who have died in Africa post World War II did so because of the "great game" between the US and Soviets, spook action is likely the direct result of those deaths he professes to lament.
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