Re:New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for C...
by dthal on Saturday January 17, 2015 @03:48PM
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I think you are exactly right. Any solutions to this have to be technical and largely defensive. Legal or diplomatic solutions will only bind parties that intend to follow the law. Counter-attacking and deterrence will fail if the attacker is not defending much of anything, so that approach might work against states and state-backed actors, but not against non-state actors.
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Re:New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for C...
by allendoerfer on Saturday January 17, 2015 @07:30PM
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> Legal or diplomatic solutions will only bind parties that intend to follow the law.
Simple rule of thumb: This argument is always false.
Our society is too complex. It is never about good guys vs. bad guys. It is mostly about money, who has the most and how laws can change incentives and prices.
It is the same with drugs, guns, atomic bombs and nearly every other topic were this argument is brought up. We need to get over this because it is just slowing us down.