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As if there wasn't enough revelations about this travesty
The last paragraph at the end of the full article sums this up pretty well
Do you regard Edward Snowden as a traitor to the US for leaking these things or doing this for the sake of the general public?
Do you find it acceptable for your activity to be monitored if it was in the interest of national security?
Is what the NSA doing right or wrong?
Source: Ars Technica (full article)Ever since Edward Snowden began leaking NSA secrets earlier this year, President Obama has insisted that they weren't "whistleblowing" in any useful sense because they didn't reveal any abuses. Instead, they simply revealed secret programs that were:
For instance, here was Obama at an August 9 press conference at the White House, answering a couple of questions from journalists about the NSA's programs.
- Operating with rigorous NSA oversight and without real problems;
- Extensively vetted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC);
- In compliance with US law, which didn't need any significant changes; and
- Generally speaking, a good idea.
And if you look at the reports, even the disclosures that Mr. Snowden's put forward, all the stories that have been written, what you're not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs and, you know, listening in on people's phone calls or inappropriately reading people's e-mails. What you're hearing about is the prospect that these could be abused. Now part of the reason they're not abused is because they're—these checks are in place, and those abuses would be against the law and would be against the orders of the FISC.The frustrating thing for critics of the massive US spy apparatus is that Obama keeps saying the right things—things like "so much of our information flow today is through the Internet, through wireless, that the risks of abuse are greater than they have been in the past." How to square that statement with the fact that Obama apparently supports the NSA's wholesale effort, revealed today, to ransack worldwide cryptography by weakening crypto standards, compromising routers, and breaking protocols that affect the lives and work of hundreds of millions of people around the world?
The last paragraph at the end of the full article sums this up pretty well
Basically, you know how the NSA is supposedly spying and monitoring internet activity going in and out of the US for the sake of "national security" in order to stop terrorists? Well now it turns out the NSA don't like encryption (because you know, they like to monitor US citizens and it jst makes it harder for them) and they would much prefer if encryption standards has some vulnerability in them somewhere so what you presume to be 'secure' is probably not.Or, as the Center for Democracy & Technology—no radical group—added in a statement today, "The NSA seems to be operating on the fantastically naïve assumption that any vulnerabilities it builds into core Internet technologies can only be exploited by itself and its global partners. The NSA simply should not be building vulnerabilities into the fundamental tools that we all rely upon to protect our private information."
Do you regard Edward Snowden as a traitor to the US for leaking these things or doing this for the sake of the general public?
Do you find it acceptable for your activity to be monitored if it was in the interest of national security?
Is what the NSA doing right or wrong?