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Re:DarkPulsar on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:11AM (#18283500)

Compare to China and Russia who imprison and kill journalists and Interpol leaders, and have no democratic oversight.

If you don’t like the way NSA is governed, change it. That’s the power of a democratic system. But when the choice is between autocratic and democratic intelligence agencies, the choice is clear.

Re:DarkPulsar on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:32AM (#18283204)

Every new technology for communication ultimately gets coopted by the powerful.

Either we work out a democratic way to self-govern these technologies, or oligarchs and plutocrats end up controlling them.

Re:We Are All Lawyers Now – The Rise of the Legalish on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:17AM (#18283082)

A big issue — at least in the US — is that American laws don’t work well because one American party wishes to destroy government to cut taxes on the rich.

Because that is their goal, they want government to work badly. So they obstruct change and improvement. Any system of laws needs to be changed as loopholes are discovered to improve the law. We can’t do that in the US because billionaires own one of our two parties.

Re:DarkPulsar on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:13AM (#18283054)

We found around 50 victims located in Russia, Iran and Egypt, typically infecting Windows 2003/2008 Server. Targets were related to nuclear energy, telecommunications, IT, aerospace and R&D.

Great. So because the NSA has crappy security (contractors!) the democratic West has just weakened itself against autocratic regimes that seek to control their people.

People that care about self-government and individual freedom have to start to recognize that the NSA - with its democratic controls and checks and balances - is far superior to an autocratic or dictatorial spy agency. And we only get to choose one.