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In response to
"agreed to the outer message..."
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Mel Profit
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Thoughts
Posted by
Beryllium (aka grayman)
Aug 15 '13, 20:01
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The thing is, if the USA is behaving this way to this extent, it generally means that dozens of countries are *worse*.
One key difference, though, is that the USA generally has both the intellectual and monetary capital to do much more involved domestic spying (cryptanalysis especially) than those countries.
China's domestic spying program involves millions of internal spies. That's scarier, because any time the human element is involved, bribery and treachery are a risk.
In the case of the NSA, the same problem exists, but in a less risky way. Not risk-free (and I don't mean Snowden), but the more automated and hands-off the program is, the fewer chances for abuse there are.
I think the public recognizes this, and that's why there's so little outrage. However, Snowden has exposed the fact that there are truck-sized holes in the system where abuse can run rampant. People are ignoring this, because they have a sense of "could be worse", when instead they should be thinking "we need to stop this from getting EASIER to abuse".
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