Re:Snowden a 'traitor': Andreessen
by tripzilch on Monday June 09, 2014 @10:35AM
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Sure, the Dutch secret service is just as bad-intentioned as the NSA. We knew this already, and it got once more underlined by some NL-related fall-out from Snowden's leaks.
Of course they do not have the resources, the means or the opportunities to enact such global pervasive surveillance as the NSA is doing. Almost none of the other secret services even come close.
Some of them would love to if they could, but only the NSA is in that position (mostly due to so much bits of Internet traffic routing in some way or another through US servers).
Only the NSA is actually doing it to this extremely insane extent.
Think about that next time you're frustrated.
Of course I care about my own government spying on me. I care a hell of a load more about some other government (one that shouldn't have any business with my life) spying on the whole fucking planet. Is that so hard to understand??
Of course they do not have the resources, the means or the opportunities to enact such global pervasive surveillance as the NSA is doing. Almost none of the other secret services even come close.
Some of them would love to if they could, but only the NSA is in that position (mostly due to so much bits of Internet traffic routing in some way or another through US servers).
Only the NSA is actually doing it to this extremely insane extent.
Think about that next time you're frustrated.
Of course I care about my own government spying on me. I care a hell of a load more about some other government (one that shouldn't have any business with my life) spying on the whole fucking planet. Is that so hard to understand??