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I'm always amazed that most people don't know about this incident.
by sarciszewski 12y ago
I'm always amazed that most people don't know about this incident.
- le_hackour 12y agoIn America, this kind of thing is hidden in fine print.
- sarciszewski 12y ago@le_hackour said (and their post was insta-killed): > In America, this kind of thing is hidden in fine print. This needs to be unhidden. Any spammers want to donate some of their resources to actually solving problems?
- sintaxi 12y agoWow, I had no idea that happened. Here's a link for the lazy... http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/07/03/us-violates-intl-law-grounding-bolivian-presidents-plane-in-pursuit-of-snowden/ http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/07/03/us-violates-intl-law-grou...
- sarciszewski 12y agoWould it be considered topical enough to submit this to HN as a separate post? EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8519052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8519052
- rquantz 12y agoYes, it's pretty incredible. And try to imagine if a foreign power forced down air force 1 and boarded the plane. That would be an act of war.
- ripb 12y ago>Yes, it's pretty incredible. And try to imagine if a foreign power forced down air force 1 and boarded the plane. That would be an act of war. Absolutely. Imagine if Air Force 1 were even prevented from taking off from a foreign country to return to the US or similar, and the host country demanded to search it for X person or object. There would be massive diplomatic implications.
- tripzilch 12y agoThere's also the story where they hacked Belgian telecom, Belgium being an ally of the US. Isn't that an act of aggression too?