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[Cryptography] Angry Cryptographers...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Hallam-Baker)
Tue Jan 28 14:58:45 2014
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:56:22 -0500
From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
To: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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This latest NSA atrocity is the last straw.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-angry-birds-nsa-british-spy-surveillance-20140127,0,4194888.story#axzz2riz3A5TH
The military can spin this any way they like but the way I see it is that a
group of officers of questionable loyalty have been spying on everyone and
everything for their own gratification. This isn't about stopping
terrorism, its just because they can.
The sheer scope of the spying and the Abu Ghraib photographs call the
officers loyalty into question. They didn't raise any questions when the
previous President ordered the use of torture on prisoners of war. They
didn't raise any questions about the reclassification of prisoners of war
as 'illegal combatants' or torture as 'enhanced interrogation'. So now they
are not due any benefit of the doubt when they try to explain their
motivations or demonstrate their loyalty.
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<div dir=3D"ltr">This latest NSA atrocity is the last straw.<br clear=3D"al=
l"><div><a href=3D"http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-angr=
y-birds-nsa-british-spy-surveillance-20140127,0,4194888.story#axzz2riz3A5TH=
">http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-angry-birds-nsa-briti=
sh-spy-surveillance-20140127,0,4194888.story#axzz2riz3A5TH</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The military can spin this any way they like but =
the way I see it is that a group of officers of questionable loyalty have b=
een spying on everyone and everything for their own gratification. This isn=
't about stopping terrorism, its just because they can.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The sheer scope of the spying and the Abu Ghraib photog=
raphs call the officers loyalty into question. They didn't raise any qu=
estions when the previous President ordered the use of torture on prisoners=
of war. They didn't raise any questions about the reclassification of =
prisoners of war as 'illegal combatants' or torture as 'enhance=
d interrogation'. So now they are not due any benefit of the doubt when=
they try to explain their motivations or demonstrate their loyalty.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Website: <a href=3D"http://hallambaker=
.com/">http://hallambaker.com/</a><br>
</div>
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