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Well why wouldn't they? The NSA is run by humans after all.

• orblivion 13y ago
  I would have to agree. Tell me any large organization where there's not a few infractions in a decade. And I'm no apologist for the NSA, I just think intellectual honesty is good for our side of the argument.
  • cgranade 13y ago
    In a way, things like this are a part of the whole bloody point that opponents of the NSA have been making: if you put that much surveillance power into the hands of a relatively small number of humans, then they will abuse it. These sort of incidents reveal through their pettiness some of the ways in which massive surveillance invites abuse.
  • saraid216 13y ago
    > And I'm no apologist for the NSA, I just think intellectual honesty is good for our side of the argument. Pretty much. Every fanciful tale we tell ourselves is another story that can be spun as reinforcement for why we're dismissable. I tell myself that this kind of tactical thinking isn't the right way to motivate people to actually care about truth, but at this point, I've completely lost faith that hackers are capable of caring about the truth.