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I'm pretty sure they don't care about hypocrisy. They have the power to do this and get away with it, so they do.

• tptacek 7mo ago
  Oh, I agree, but the article says: There is an element of hypocrisy in all this because American intelligence agencies were previously caught intercepting Cisco-made routers on their way to customers No there isn't! That's not hypocritical! Words mean things!
  • orwin 7mo ago
    I agree it's not hypocrisy, but I can see the element of hypocrisy, if I understand their meaning correctly.
    • tptacek 7mo ago
      Can you help me understand it then? I assume it's some kind of "turnabout is fair play" thing?
    • linksnapzz 7mo ago
      "L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu." Rochfoucauld didn't miss.
  • machomaster 6mo ago
    Country X1 is claiming that country X2 is allegedly doing bad thing Z. If it turns out that it is the country X2 that is actually doing Z, you would call it hypocritical, wouldn't you? Like Russia talking about the importance of international law and sovereignty of Iran. Like Israel speaking how much against Holocaust/genocide they are. Snd words do mean things and they don't discriminate. So all the "it's only bad when others do it, for us there is an exception" defence is invalid. It is indeed hypocritical.