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"Whistleblowers have large egos by nature" - "reference needed"? So the author believes that a mass surveillance of Americans in America is wrong, but a mass s
by piyush_soni 13y ago
"Whistleblowers have large egos by nature" - "reference needed"?
So the author believes that a mass surveillance of Americans in America is wrong, but a mass surveillance of all other calls worldwide is absolutely fine, and that hacking into China's or every other country's servers is ok, and they massively tracking ALL internet communication to India and Pakistan is ok as well. Clearly, Snowden thought otherwise. US is defeated in this. People in other countries have reduced trusting Google Apps and Microsoft emails, and rightfully so. Even Google and Microsoft didn't know the extent to which the NSA had hacked into their internal servers.
- csandreasen 13y agoYes, the author does believe that surveillance of foreign nations is okay, as do many other people. The NSA is a foreign intelligence service - their purpose, by design, is to gather information on the capabilities and intentions of foreign nations. It's not just an American thing, either. As it turns out, just about every other nation on Earth thinks it's okay to spy on other nations[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies