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Are you a US citizen? How would you react if supposedly close US allies were bugging the White House, the US senate and AT&T? Repeatedly? Five Eyes, Echelon, Me
by markvdb 12y ago
Are you a US citizen? How would you react if supposedly close US allies were bugging the White House, the US senate and AT&T? Repeatedly? Five Eyes, Echelon, Merkel, Belgacom, ...
- throwaway344 12y agoThe irony of course is that the CIA did hack into the US Senate's computers. http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/cia-admits-it-improperly-hacking-senate-computers-20140731 http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/cia-admits-it-improperly...
- anigbrowl 12y agoI'm not a US citizen, but I presume that US allies which have the capability do unilaterally gather intelligence on the US.
- mpyne 12y agoUm.... you perhaps know less than you think you do about what "close US allies" do and do not engage in behind closed doors. Half of the reason Five Eyes even exists is to reduce the threat of espionage conducted by close allies.