Isn't this EXACTLY what the NSA's job is?
Cooperate espionage?
Acts of war against allies?
Gathering intelligence is about reading records from parliament than anything else. Especially when dealing with democracies more transparent than your own.
We're talking about deliberate sabotage of our allies telecommunications networks. It'd be one thing if this were with countries we're at war with, but it's not.
Thank you!
Because 2 wrongs make a right? Is that how it goes?
But let's not kid our selves... Most countries don't have offensive intelligence capabilities.
Just because the US intelligence community has a history of murdering and selling drugs to fund illegal wars, doesn't mean other civilized countries do...
I'm all for the leaks when it concerns stuff the NSA does against civilians. But against foreign governments? The point of the NSA is to do that sort of thing.
Spying on allies? really? This borderlines to act of war...
By the way, foreign governments holds a lot of information about their citizens, social security numbers, medical records, tax records, etc. The NSA has no business doing mass surveillance on on civilians just because they aren't American!
And anyone that thinks these other governments aren't doing the same thing back are kidding themselves.
I'm fairly confident my government doesn't. In fact most intelligence gathering isn't necessarily illegal at all. Mostly you gather intelligence about political issues in foreign countries, but watching the news, reading news papers, public records from parliament, blog posts, twitter, or just plain asking politicians what they think about an issue.
You don't do it by tabbing phones of allied politicians! Or intercepting mail (physical or electronic).
By the way, I'm sure the German democracy is more transparent than the American, if you want to know what goes on... just read the records.
Telling people (including 'enemies') which 'leaks' were authorized and which ones were really leaks could give people all sorts of interesting information -- including which disinformation....leaks to trust and which ones not to.
True, it would not be advantageous for the NSA, perhaps not even advantageous for the US goverment, maybe and just maybe it might be disadvantageous to the American public.
But could it "reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security".
it seems to me like the NSA is playing the word game, where "exceptionally grave damage" == "slight annoyance or minor risk".
This is Europe, so probably around six months in prison.
Yeah... but in the US... they company would get off with a fine
Any sanctions imposed in retaliation for a certain deed — such as Russia's invasion into Afghanistan, Georgia or Ukraine — must last until the deed is reversed.
That is certainly a valid argument... One that needs to be taken in to consideration, that said, if you don't let go (at some point), we end in a situation like we have with Iran where we can't impose further sanctions.
Other matter to consider is that the best way to further democracy in Russia, is not to isolate Russia further. That'll just make it easier or Putin to control the media, etc.
I'm not saying we should lift sanctions against Russia anytime soon. In fact I favor threat of stronger sanctions. That said, why exactly does the US (as the only western country) still have trade sanctions against Cuba? Is that anything but old grudge. My point is let's not create more of those situations.
By the way, with respect to the Georgia conflict, if I remember correct the US was the only country to impose sanctions. EU talked about, but as I recall it never did anything, but talk... You can take that as a sign of EU weakness or a sign of lacking support for war-crazy Bush (as some Europeans probably do). With my country having followed Bush/US into Iraq on a lie, I don't trust want my politicians to trust the US or US intelligence.
The whole POINT of Firefox was to be lean and fast and shed all the "integrated" extras of previous browsers.
Maybe my browser history is a bit rusty... but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the whole POINT of Firefox
That said, yes... addons are good... It's especially a great way to test things. But it might not be the best to bring an important feature to the majority of the user-base. Laugh all your want about the importance of "private browing" mode, but if it was just an add-on, most people won't use it.
Last time it was your boy-wonder, who lifted the sanctions against Russia [nytimes.com]...
Yeah.... but sanctions really only send a message in the moment you apply them... After that they're just blocking economic growth in both countries.
So slowing removing them when nobody is looking is smart move... Then you can reapply them, if it should ever come to that.
As long as Putin is around, it's probably not the last time.
Also it doesn't make sense to carry a grudge forever... Sometimes it's better to just move along.
But right now, Cuba, Iran and North Korea doesn't really care much about what the US says.... because sort of armed conflict (in violation of the UN charter) the US can't really impose further sanctions. Cuba is pretty much the US holding an old grudge, lifting those sanctions ought to be a no-brainer... As for Iran and North Korea who both does have nuclear programs, there are pros/cons to maintaining and lifting sanctions. Maintaining them on North Korea, keeps the country crushed. Whereas Iran has oil that we'll buy either way, so maybe lifting sanctions on Iran would be worthwhile. Just maybe.
The problem is that G-sync is a proprietary solution by Nvidia.
Whereas, Adaptive Sync is a VESA standard officially part of the DisplayPort 1.2a specs.
Good point... I'm all done with Nvidia and AMD. The only somewhat reliable graphics thing is intel. Next time I get a laptop I'll lookout and make sure I don't get something with one of nvidia's proprietary solutions... Currently stuck without external display because it runs over nvidia optimus; which is utter shit in any configuration under linux.
As long as we rely on CAs for trusted certificates SSL will always have an easily-exploited weak link.
We can all agree HTTPS isn't perfect... but both Firefox and Chrome have started pining certificates... At least that's a start.
If the NSA says they can't find the emails and Snowden produces them, it's game over for the NSA.
Really, by that logic it should have been "game over" for the NSA a long time ago. NSA official lying under oath is nothing new. The US has no credibility at this point.
And how would he prove they are real?
Email headers
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers* from it." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
