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Though it appears to be booming, virtually every country these days does similar things to the NSA and the US, usually less effectively but possibly less snowde
by coldcode 12y ago
Though it appears to be booming, virtually every country these days does similar things to the NSA and the US, usually less effectively but possibly less snowdened so you can't tell; it's also possible that some countries might simply pass everything on to the US as well. Basically you are picking between varying and possibly unknown evils.
- Zigurd 12y agoWhile it is true that the threat from governments and criminals is nearly universal to some extent, you are missing the fact that the US has orders of magnitude more spying capabilities than other countries. A limited budget limits capabilities in ways that don't scale linearly. Some countries are far below the threshold of implementing any of the pervasive monitoring and analysis programs the NSA has got.
- ejain 12y ago> Some countries are far below the threshold of implementing any of the pervasive monitoring and analysis programs the NSA has got. They don't need to implement their own, they can just subscribe to the Monitoring as a Service program the NSA offers...