Re:Snowden a 'traitor': Andreessen
by tptacek on Thursday June 05, 2014 @02:30PM
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When you say "CCC", you mean Chaos, right?
If you want to assert that among all the major western governments, Germany is among the best when it comes to data privacy, and is leagues better than the US, I'll agree.
Where we run into friction is when we try to extend that into saying that the German government is categorically less culpable for SIGINT than the USG. I do not believe that; in particular, I think "jurisdictional arbitrage" (if I might coin a term) profoundly implicates all the governments of Europe (and Russia as well).
It's hard to argue that a country isn't culpable for some other country's SIGINT when they are themselves a customer of that SIGINT.
If you want to assert that among all the major western governments, Germany is among the best when it comes to data privacy, and is leagues better than the US, I'll agree.
Where we run into friction is when we try to extend that into saying that the German government is categorically less culpable for SIGINT than the USG. I do not believe that; in particular, I think "jurisdictional arbitrage" (if I might coin a term) profoundly implicates all the governments of Europe (and Russia as well).
It's hard to argue that a country isn't culpable for some other country's SIGINT when they are themselves a customer of that SIGINT.