Did anyone really think that the hackers and code-crackers in Fort Meade, Maryland (headquarters of the NSA) spent all day playing Sudoku? Their capabilities are indeed colossal. But so they should be, given the taxpayers’ money they consume.
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Our enemies—notably Russia and China—are spying on us. Indeed, so too are our allies. France runs a mighty industrial espionage service for the benefit of its big companies. Germany has an excellent signals intelligence agency, the Kommando Strategische Aufklärung. Germany’s spies were recently caught spying on their NATO ally Estonia—using an official who, in a truly sinister twist, was also spying for the Russians.
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Snowden’s published revelations include material that has nothing to do with his purported worries about personal privacy. They reveal how countries like Norway and Sweden spy on Russia.
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Why is it in the public interest to reveal how the NSA intercepts e-mails, phone calls, and radio transmissions of Taliban fighters in Pakistan, or to show that the agency is intensifying scrutiny on the security of that country’s nuclear weapons? Snowden even revealed details of how the NSA hacks into computers and mobile phones in China and Hong Kong.
Man muss sicher nicht allen Punkten des Artikels zu stimmen, aber es finden sich einige sehr interessante Feststellung, die mir soweit noch nicht bewusst waren. Leider fehlen mir Quellenangaben.
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