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We are due for a new leak... wonder what they have been doing for the last ~10 years.
by pGuitar 4y ago
We are due for a new leak... wonder what they have been doing for the last ~10 years.
- mtmail 4y agoThey? Are you confusing Edward Snowden with Wikileaks?
- pGuitar 4y ago"They" as in the countless spy agencies... I bet you don't even know how many of them are in the USA alone (They all share data anyways, so what's the point?).
- jonnybgood 4y ago17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com...
- coding123 4y agoThat's a lot of "spy agencies", the word "countless" still applies as it's a figure of speech. Only on HN. This is why an engineer should never be president as much as many of you wish it to be so. You can't have a normal conversation without your ocd ticking off.
- jonnybgood 4y agoI’m not an engineer. And it’s actually not a lot when you break it down. They each specialize in different areas of intelligence. NSA does SIGINT, NGA does GEOINT, military branches do intelligence for military intelligence in their respective branch, law enforcement intelligence for law enforcement, and so on.
- pGuitar 4y agoSo why do they teach law enforcement agencies to lie about where information comes from? i.e.: Parallel construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction Because they get the information using illegal methods... that's why.
- jonnybgood 4y agoOkay. I don’t know what prompted that question, though.
- pGuitar 4y agoTo my defense, I wasn't only talking only about the USA in the first part of my sentence. But 17 is a shitload either way for the USA (there is probably some secret ones too... aka the black budget).
- jonnybgood 4y agoYou really should read up more on how the US intelligence community functions. It can be very enlightening. But why is that a shitload?
- pGuitar 4y agoI know too much already... they need to spy less on their people.