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Flagged. Why wouldn't an intelligence service target a second-most-populous nuclear-armed space-faring nation? That's as much a revelation as the Pope being Cat

Flagged. Why wouldn't an intelligence service target a second-most-populous nuclear-armed space-faring nation? That's as much a revelation as the Pope being Catholic. Please stop with the manufactured NSA "news" stories.

r0h1n 13y ago
Oh, pardon me for thinking it was news that a foreign country (incidentally and in your same vein, also the most militarized one; the only nuclear arms user in history; and inveterate meddler in the affairs of countries around the world) thinks it perfectly fine to indiscriminately spy on the citizens of a friendly country. By arm twisting companies like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft for whom India is a large market. Or by stealthily wiretapping our telecom networks. And since this is as much news to you as "the Pope being Catholic", I assume you'll be perfectly fine if it emerged that, oh, Indian intelligence agencies were spying on all US citizens by secretly arm-twisting the IT services companies and BPOs that work for most US corporations and even many govt agencies? No? Lemme guess, that is totally different. Because you're a US citizen?
- Daniel_Newby 13y ago
  > you'll be perfectly fine if it emerged that, oh, Indian intelligence agencies were spying on all US citizens by secretly arm-twisting the IT services companies and BPOs that work for most US corporations and even many govt agencies? Yes. Indian spies do exactly that. IT workers are heavily background checked and audited for precisely this reason. File storage is partitioned and encrypted for precisely this reason. Your entire train of thought is naive and childish. Spying promotes stability and safety. Because you know much of the truth in advance, you can give other countries the benefit of the doubt when surprises occur. Consider what would happen if your retarded dream came true: the U.S. stopped so unfairly spying on the noble, just Indians. Then a nuclear bomb goes off in Kashmir, or some similar unpredictable act of insanity. The U.S. would be forced to assume the worst, go to a high alert status, and begin gearing up for a massive war just in case. Ignorance is suicide.

r0h1n 13y ago

Oh, pardon me for thinking it was news that a foreign country (incidentally and in your same vein, also the most militarized one; the only nuclear arms user in history; and inveterate meddler in the affairs of countries around the world) thinks it perfectly fine to indiscriminately spy on the citizens of a friendly country. By arm twisting companies like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft for whom India is a large market. Or by stealthily wiretapping our telecom networks. And since this is as much news to you as "the Pope being Catholic", I assume you'll be perfectly fine if it emerged that, oh, Indian intelligence agencies were spying on all US citizens by secretly arm-twisting the IT services companies and BPOs that work for most US corporations and even many govt agencies? No? Lemme guess, that is totally different. Because you're a US citizen?

Daniel_Newby 13y ago
> you'll be perfectly fine if it emerged that, oh, Indian intelligence agencies were spying on all US citizens by secretly arm-twisting the IT services companies and BPOs that work for most US corporations and even many govt agencies? Yes. Indian spies do exactly that. IT workers are heavily background checked and audited for precisely this reason. File storage is partitioned and encrypted for precisely this reason. Your entire train of thought is naive and childish. Spying promotes stability and safety. Because you know much of the truth in advance, you can give other countries the benefit of the doubt when surprises occur. Consider what would happen if your retarded dream came true: the U.S. stopped so unfairly spying on the noble, just Indians. Then a nuclear bomb goes off in Kashmir, or some similar unpredictable act of insanity. The U.S. would be forced to assume the worst, go to a high alert status, and begin gearing up for a massive war just in case. Ignorance is suicide.