Skybird
11-23-13, 06:05 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/us/politics/nsa-report-outlined-goals-for-more-power.html?_r=0
Paranoia.
Megalomania.
Q.
Revelation'S from Snowdens papers just weerks ago showed that most of the NSA's acitivities, including the nmassive boost of its scope since 9/11, is not to counter terrorism and military threats, but to conduct business spionage.
The British GCHQ has even been admitted by Cameron to help aggressively pushing British business interests, so here as well: its about industrial and business spionage.
It's practical to have a climate of fear and claims of terror threats. One can so nicely hide behind them.
And before an yone now inevitably says "everybody does it" - well, only few can be imagined to be capable to do it on a scale like the US and Britain do. The German BND is not one of them, underfunded and short in technological equipment and personnel as it is. China does it, having the competence and material means, Russia at least wants - whether it can I do not judge.
The US knows all too well why it so mercilessly defends possession of all key servers running and controlling the internet. It's one of the very top strategic advantages of theirs.
Everybody believing that laws and international treaties can be trusted to set limits here, can only be called naive.
Paranoia.
Megalomania.
Q.
Revelation'S from Snowdens papers just weerks ago showed that most of the NSA's acitivities, including the nmassive boost of its scope since 9/11, is not to counter terrorism and military threats, but to conduct business spionage.
The British GCHQ has even been admitted by Cameron to help aggressively pushing British business interests, so here as well: its about industrial and business spionage.
It's practical to have a climate of fear and claims of terror threats. One can so nicely hide behind them.
And before an yone now inevitably says "everybody does it" - well, only few can be imagined to be capable to do it on a scale like the US and Britain do. The German BND is not one of them, underfunded and short in technological equipment and personnel as it is. China does it, having the competence and material means, Russia at least wants - whether it can I do not judge.
The US knows all too well why it so mercilessly defends possession of all key servers running and controlling the internet. It's one of the very top strategic advantages of theirs.
Everybody believing that laws and international treaties can be trusted to set limits here, can only be called naive.