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Don't underestimate the incompetence of our governments.
by baq 9mo ago
Don't underestimate the incompetence of our governments.
- NoiseBert69 9mo agoThe German foreign intelligence service (BND) played the PR of incompetence for a very long time. Well until press found out that they had tapped into Obamas encrypted phone calls while flying in the AF1 for a long time.
- lejalv 9mo agoI did not know - here's a link to Washington Post reporting: https://archive.ph/kCxNw https://archive.ph/kCxNw
- LispShmisp 9mo ago> Well until press found out that they had tapped into Obamas encrypted phone calls while flying in the AF1 for a long time. As per the article linked above (https://archive.ph/kCxNw https://archive.ph/kCxNw) "The intelligence agency, called the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) discovered that some calls on Air Force One were unencrypted and it was able to tap into radio frequencies that were used for those calls, according to the book, " No hacking or deployment of listening devices, just passive listening. Unless you have other sources?
- markus_zhang 9mo agoThey are usually incompetent on things that are not important, like keeping infrastructure from falling off the cliff, maintaining a good economy, or in general serving the people. They are pretty competent on things that are really important, like hacking into people's phones, killing other people. After all you have to admit that getting killed is more serious than getting starved...
- ddalex 9mo agoAppear weak when you are strong, and all of that
- baq 9mo agohope for the best, expect the worst...