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> The NSA is not actually primarly protecting the people, its protecting itself first, the government second and third, maybe the people a little bit. I wouldn
by rpgmaker 11y ago
> The NSA is not actually primarly protecting the people, its protecting itself first, the government second and third, maybe the people a little bit.
I wouldn't put the people that high up the list. Remember that their programs haven't been shown to save a single person. Even with the insane amount of pressure that they had because of the Snowden revelations they couldn't come up with some sort weasel logic that allowed them to claim that hundreds of lives had been saved. They don't care for that.
The terrorists have been using encryption forever and will keep doing so even if it's outlawed in major western countries. Just the other day it was reported that ISIS has its own encrypted chat app. Attempting to fuck up encryption for the masses won't help anyone.
- krapp 11y ago>Remember that their programs haven't been shown to save a single person. To be fair, any attempt the NSA did make to justify itself to the public would immediately be dismissed as propaganda, fabrication or parallel construction and entrapment. And their job doesn't require public goodwill - the people they actually have to answer to have security clearances. So if they had ironclad evidence that their methods worked, there's no reason to reveal it to you or I, Snowden or otherwise.
- rpgmaker 11y agoThey do if they are going to violate everyone's privacy. Authoritarians just don't register this.