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Yes. Because that is exactly their purpose. To gain SIGINT on others. Every major nation does this kind of thing to each other to keep the others in check. Tru
by tomschlick 10y ago
Yes. Because that is exactly their purpose. To gain SIGINT on others.
Every major nation does this kind of thing to each other to keep the others in check. Trust but verify.
- bigbugbag 10y agoHow many US sockpuppets parroting the same baseless argument are there in these HN comments ? UK and US intelligence have a bilateral agreement to spy on each other population and swap the collected data as a workaround of national law forbidding them to do so. This single fact shows that those agencies go the extra mile to do things out of their supposed purpose, that agencies are not in check by their respective government and that not every major nation is SIGINTing each other. The reality is that intelligence agencies have a motto along the lines of "we can do anything we want in any way we want as long we don't get caught".
- willstrafach 10y ago> workaround of national law forbidding them to do so Citizen data is still minimized, regardless of who collected it. There has never been evidence of this often-repeated "workaround" theory.
- ionised 10y ago> There has never been evidence of this often-repeated "workaround" theory. I mean, it was pretty clear from the Snowden leaks that this is what was happening.
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