On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 11:20 +1000, Jan Whitaker wrote: > At 10:59 AM 8/08/2013, Karl Auer wrote: > >All of these things can be done by ordinary employees, of course; the > >difference is that these people may be protected by their military > >function, leaving the host organisation harmed and without recourse. > >Hence my question. > > Or their political function.
Yes. And the additional problem that military and political can get very confused - we see the disastrous result in the present NSA shenanigans. > Isn't it interesting that various power blocks say they believe in > democracies and transparency, until their own power interests are > challenged. Which then leads to the rest of us saying, if you can't > beat 'em, join 'em. I don't understand that last sentence. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A Old fingerprint: AE1D 4868 6420 AD9A A698 5251 1699 7B78 4EEE 6017 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link