On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:01 PM, x z <xhzh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Occam's razor would give us the following is what has actually happened in > the past three days: a semi-clueless whistle blower fed an overzealous > journalist a low-quality powerpoint deck, which met the privacy-paranoia and > exploded.
I agree. I also don't understand what's the big deal. It is well-known that the NSA (with cooperation with SIGINT agencies of other countries) scans all communication channels it can get to. By reaching popular communication methods like webmail and social media, it is just doing its job. What apparently is at the core of the hysterical public reaction is that the NSA spies on Americans, who think that they are special, and should be treated differently. The reason they think they are special is that the huge geopolitical / economic / military-industrial complex influence of the United States elevates and accustoms them to a position that's completely out of proportion with their actual value to the world — utterly un-democratic, if you think about it. Well, your spy agencies are more democratic than you guys — they spy on you, too. If that wouldn't have been the case, it would mean that your military-industrial complex is not that powerful, which would imply that you are not special anymore, which, ironically, rejects the original premise. Hopefully someone else can appreciate the irony as well (hence writing this). -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
