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TFA - "democratic" hacking is good: "How one treats intelligence activity or law enforcement activity driven under democratic oversight within a lawfully electe
by kritiko 6y ago
TFA - "democratic" hacking is good: "How one treats intelligence activity or law enforcement activity driven under democratic oversight within a lawfully elected representative government is very different from that of an authoritarian regime."
- Fuzzy_Logic 6y agoThe CIA has a history of spying on Congress[0], overthrowing democratic governments [1], among a long list of nefarious activities I would not consider proper "democratic hacking." [2] How is obligating big tech to cooperate with Western intelligence agencies a positive move for democracies? [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/a-brief-history-of-the-cias-unpunished-spying-on-the-senate/384003/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/a-brief... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies
- kritiko 6y agoI'm quite skeptical of the viewpoint in this article - just answering the question from the parent comment of "would China be justified in exploiting Huawei?" The distinction that this article makes is that our clandestine operations have "democratic oversight." To be clear, I think the author would say that they are attempting journalistic neutrality, but they're giving considerable space to the argument that democratic clandestine services deserve a different standard.