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If I was a German general or minister I'd choose to be backdoored by the US rather than China any day of the week.
by jojobas 3y ago
If I was a German general or minister I'd choose to be backdoored by the US rather than China any day of the week.
- luyu_wu 3y agoI assume this is coming from an American? Correct me if I'm mistaken of course.
- kalleboo 3y agoI mean, Germany is already backdoored by the US in a quite physical sense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_ins...
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- donor20 3y agoThe us already has a full blown military base IN Germany - there is likely plenty of intelligence sharing already and similar interests around security. Not sure US needs to back door too heavily for most info
- Tomte 3y ago"A military base" is really understating it. Germany not only has several important bases, like Ramstein with the largest American military hospital outside American soil, and several other large bases (K-Town), but also houses two of eleven unified combatant commands in a single city: EUCOM and AFRICOM are both in Stuttgart.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoNeedless to say there's plenty of CIA around as well. Just look at the welcome guide for Frankfurt for new officers in the field from one of the more recent leaks. Can't remember which.
- The_Colonel 3y agoAllies spy on each other all the time. There was a big affair of US spying on Merkel a couple of years ago.
- mfru 3y agoYeah no, hard pass on that.
- curiousgal 3y ago⠀
- junto 3y agoWell, we already know they did that. -https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/new-snowden-revelations-on-nsa-spying-in-germany-a-975441.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/new-snowden-rev... - https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-german-chancellery-decades-wikileaks-claims-merkel https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-g...