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Can I ask you a serious question? I don't condone the government hacking at all and find it atrocious but...How is this any different than China, Russia, Israel

Can I ask you a serious question? I don't condone the government hacking at all and find it atrocious but...How is this any different than China, Russia, Israel, UK, Germany, etc. who all try to breach tech companies to gain information? I agree that this is very illegal but at the same time I also question making the US the villain when every country is trying to do the same thing. Companies should invest in security to prevent these things from all actors whether they be hacked for profits or government backed.

fit2rule 12y ago
Its different in that America pitches itself as a land of freedom, equality, liberty. This is no longer true at all - you cannot have liberty, egality, freedom, if you cannot trust your own lines of communication - and because of the heinous apparatus constructed by the Five-Eyes nations (its not just the US, its also its disgusting partners) you no longer have true freedom, liberty, egality. These repressive dictators have granted themselves the only freedom to communicate safely, they have granted themselves full liberty over the right to alter others' communication, and they are well and truly on their way to creating an imbalance of power guaranteed to enslave us all. You simply cannot trust your own communications any more. What you write, may not be what others read. If you're a journalist or a rising author, or perhaps just a leader of opinion in a broad public base, you can no longer trust that your communications will not be tampered with, altered, intercepted, interfered with. Of course this has always been the case, except that in the last 2 decades of Internet ascendency, we've all been relatively hopeful that the world is changing because our lines of communication are open wider. Alas, this is no longer the case. All hope has been dashed by the Five-Eyes oppression designed to reign in their own citizens - not find terrorists, but rather give these heinous organs of repression the ability to interfere in any industry they choose, with any person they sight, for any reason whatsoever. What was once a dream of hope is now an incredible nightmare, and America - loudest of all the arrogant Western nations claiming moral high ground, proud proclaimer of its own exceptionalism, can no longer do so. The fact is: there IS no difference, any more, between the oppression felt by the Chinese, or that now enacted on any member of the Five-Eyes state. The door has been slammed shut on freedom, equality, liberty.

fit2rule 12y ago

Its different in that America pitches itself as a land of freedom, equality, liberty. This is no longer true at all - you cannot have liberty, egality, freedom, if you cannot trust your own lines of communication - and because of the heinous apparatus constructed by the Five-Eyes nations (its not just the US, its also its disgusting partners) you no longer have true freedom, liberty, egality. These repressive dictators have granted themselves the only freedom to communicate safely, they have granted themselves full liberty over the right to alter others' communication, and they are well and truly on their way to creating an imbalance of power guaranteed to enslave us all. You simply cannot trust your own communications any more. What you write, may not be what others read. If you're a journalist or a rising author, or perhaps just a leader of opinion in a broad public base, you can no longer trust that your communications will not be tampered with, altered, intercepted, interfered with. Of course this has always been the case, except that in the last 2 decades of Internet ascendency, we've all been relatively hopeful that the world is changing because our lines of communication are open wider. Alas, this is no longer the case. All hope has been dashed by the Five-Eyes oppression designed to reign in their own citizens - not find terrorists, but rather give these heinous organs of repression the ability to interfere in any industry they choose, with any person they sight, for any reason whatsoever. What was once a dream of hope is now an incredible nightmare, and America - loudest of all the arrogant Western nations claiming moral high ground, proud proclaimer of its own exceptionalism, can no longer do so. The fact is: there IS no difference, any more, between the oppression felt by the Chinese, or that now enacted on any member of the Five-Eyes state. The door has been slammed shut on freedom, equality, liberty.