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Why would increasing the governments right to spy on their on populace protect them from a Russian aggression ?

• aluhut 10y ago
  With the situation as it is right now, I'm not sure there is anything that could protect you from Russian aggression. Here it is like with surveillance cameras. They won't jump down from the pole to help you. Still they are all over now being sold with the argument of protection.
• throw0617 10y ago
  Rights to monitor Internet traffic would allow authorities to have better picture of cyber attacks and maybe allow putting up better defences against them. It is also quite clear that Russia is having various operations where they try to affect the public opinion for example through forum posts. Would be probably quite useful to be able to monitor these as well. Of course, as usual, on the other side you then have the peoples right to privacy and I'm not sure if the pros outweigh the cons. In general the principle in Finland is that we can't setup ultimate defense against Russia. We can only try to build up defense, which makes attacking us too costly.