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> Snowden’s revelations have hurt the United States’ relations with some allies and slowed the sales of U.S. technology products abroad. So it wasn't the spyin
by Lendal 9y ago
> Snowden’s revelations have hurt the United States’ relations with some allies and slowed the sales of U.S. technology products abroad.
So it wasn't the spying that hurt the relations, it was Snowden. Okay. I'll stop reading now. This news source just discredited itself.
- jasonmaydie 9y agoAll countries spy. In fact it is imperative that they do
- bhouston 9y agoOnly a couple countries are truly effective at it, although all would like to be.
- Allower 9y agoCare to elaborate?
- mmjaa 9y agoWake me up when Austrian malware causes a total collapse of key infrastructure projects in a developing nation that didn't deserve it...
- slamdance 9y agothe word "deserve" is very subjective... who gets to decide who is "deserving"?
- mmjaa 9y agoHopefully, the democratic public. Realistically though, authoritarian power brokers.
- slamdance 9y agoI apologize for the rabbit hole. But I must ask: the "democratic public" of North Korea? or just "mob rule" in general? the "authoritarian power brokers" of the US? or Russia (i.e. Ukraine, Odessa, etc...)?, China (i.e. India, Tibet, Myanmar vs. Rohingyas, etc...)? The line has to be drawn somewhere. The UN has proven to be quite useless. Edit - Link Added: http://www.independent.ie/world-news/china-endorses-myanmars-crackdown-on-rohingya-insurgents-as-un-labels-it-ethniccleansing-36130777.html http://www.independent.ie/world-news/china-endorses-myanmars...
- mmjaa 9y agoTrue power is assumed, never granted.
- fiddlerwoaroof 9y agoAustrian foreign policy only helped bring about a world war.
- madshiva 9y agoNo, not all countries at the same level, for the same reason. It can be from defense to big attack. Only the big one can really have the budget to do so.
- Zigurd 9y agoZero countries control as many key technologies trusted by other countries as the US
- phkahler 9y agoYou should have continued: >> Peter Swire, one of five members of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, said the Kaspersky report showed that it is essential for the country to consider the possible impact on trade and diplomatic relations before deciding to use its knowledge of software flaws for intelligence gathering. “There can be serious negative effects on other U.S. interests,” Swire said.
- Mouse47 9y agoThat's an awfully uncharitable reading of that sentence. Let me emphasize this for you: >Snowden’s revelations have hurt the United States’ relations with some allies and slowed the sales of U.S. technology products abroad.
- jlgaddis 9y agoSo it wasn't the spying that hurt the relations, it was the revelations that the spying was happening?
- anotherbrownguy 9y agoIf Snowden hadn't revealed this, the sales of technology products would probably not have slowed down. So, they are not wrong.
- gcb0 9y agohe's pointing out the semiotics used by the chosen wording. it's no accident and it puts unnecessary emphasis on the mensager. obviously it can be parsed to the correct meaning. but the subjective one should be considered too.