Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom

Re:Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom by colanderman on Sunday September 14, 2014 @10:10AM (#8315227)

Don't be ridiculous. An idea is original if there's no prior art. If there's no prior art, spying on other people doesn't magically cause prior art to spring into being.

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Re:Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom by chippy on Sunday September 14, 2014 @10:24AM (#8315256)

I agree but it's not totally ridiculous, because prior art has to be published or at least known about. So if a technology was worked in a secret laboratory which was stolen, there was no prior art as all the thieves would say was "we've been working on this for years also, and released it before you".

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Re:Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom by panzi on Sunday September 14, 2014 @11:39AM (#8315410)

"And pretty soon My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed, When he finds out I published first!"

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Re:Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom by 6chars on Sunday September 14, 2014 @02:03PM (#8315785)

Ever since I meet this man, my life is not the same.

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Re:Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom by colanderman on Sunday September 14, 2014 @09:27PM (#8316864)

So in your world, the NSA shares all the secrets it finds with random patent thieves?

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Re:Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom by japasc on Sunday September 14, 2014 @10:21AM (#8315248)

If its developed as a secret, you will never prove prior art.

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