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As the Snowden leaks get further away from "they're spying on Americans" and more into "they're doing their job" I'm getting less and less sympathetic. This is
by BWStearns 13y ago
As the Snowden leaks get further away from "they're spying on Americans" and more into "they're doing their job" I'm getting less and less sympathetic. This is just a way to exfiltrate data, if that way was on steroids and a bigger budget, but still very much within the scope of the legally declared mission of the agency. Why is anyone upset that a technical spy agency is spying using technical means?
- vdaniuk 13y agoAs a foreigner, comments like yours make me question my assumption that regular Americans are not responsible for the atrocities committed by USG. Why is anyone upset? I don't know, people don't want to be spied on? Hmm, yes, that may be the case here.
- BWStearns 13y agoAs a rational person on planet earth I can safely assume that if your country is not too broke to afford a spy service then it has probably attempted to spy/spied on the US at some point. That's what countries do when they don't know something that someone else is unwilling to tell them. Do you really think that the US is unique in spying? or that the scale is even unique? Pro tip: if you do you're wrong.