> ... , where Islamic terrorist groups that threaten the West have bases." Yes, and regularly negotiate trade agreements with these terrorists, in this case for buying shrimps (the Buba Gump kind) as was the case for the spying here.

> But don't forget that big pharma, for all its problems still is the number one creator of new drugs. In 2012 alone, the U.S. government and private companies spent a combined $130 billion (PDF) on medical research."

That is not true. That research is done in universities often with taxpayer money and big pharma snaps it up for a song. Watch Big Bucks, Big Pharma https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... or read Marcia Angell - The Truth About the Drug Companies, Ben Goldacre - Bad Pharma - How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, Irving Kirsch The Emperor's New Drugs Exposed (SSRIs) and Jacky Kaw - Big Pharma - Exposing the Global Health Industry Agenda.

Accenture, from the multinational corporation formerly known as Arthur Andersen, changed their name after the Enron scandal, formerly residents of tax haven Bermuda, now residents of tax haven Ireland http://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2013/11/06/if-ireland-is-not-a-tax-haven-what-is-it/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen#Enron_scandal

Also Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/

Sorry Blanchfield, but Adblock can fetch the ads and then simply not show them.

And Yablonka, Adbock can simply block *all* images since most are superfluous anyway and only allow through those it really trusts.

Sorry to break it to you the both of you Blanchfield and Yablonka, but no plan survives its first encounter with the enemy.

> Users of Truecrypt should be extra careful of physical security of their systems to prevent investigators from gaining access to the contents of physical memory."

By investigators, do you mean government workers conducting industrial espionage?

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/nsa-busted-conducting-industrial-espionage-in-france-mexico-brazil-and-other-countries.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-04/asio-arrests-key-witness-in-east-timor-spying-scandal/5132954
http://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-spied-on-brazils-government-as-part-of-global-commercial-espionage-campaign/5353642
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-spy-agency-helped-bhp-negotiate-trade-deals-20131106-2x1sw.html
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131111/11532125198/australia-spied-japan-to-help-companies-negotiate-trade-deals.shtml
http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/12/02/revealed-the-government-agency-stealing-ideas-from-businesses/
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000940560
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits

> In addition, if what Kaplan says is correct and he did this in a premeditated manner then his whole story starts to unravel.

And what if Snowden assassinated JFK? If I am correct then Snowden's whole story starts to unravel.

Before: "BUSH ELECTED PRESIDENT"

After: "ANONYMOUS ELECTED PRESIDENT"

Hey! There is an up side!

I've seen the feed. They are all tiger sharks. Another shameful example of racial profiling.

I trust Bruce Schneider. If he's a sleeper agent, they've put in so much effort it would seem churlish not to use him.

And really, I'd use Blowfish ahead of any NSA encraption algorithm or LOL AES. If history has a sense of irony, China will pwn the entire US IT infrastructure using NSA backdoors.

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/66682.php?from=257191 Credit: NASA & ESA, STScI-PRC14-06b Usage Restrictions: News organizations may use this image in connection with reports about exoplanetary research.

WTF? News organisations can, but but bloggers or amateur astronomers can't? Can't use it for reports about other things? It's a shitty low resolution image anyway. Are they scared someone will write an best selling game around it? Usual institutional anti-fair use paranoia off something probably spawned from a public research grant anyway.

Problem is it's way beyond terrorism and well into commercial espionage. Here a politician used Australia's spy agency to spy Timor Leste's government to help Woodside Petroleum screw them over in negotiations. The politician is now an employee of Woodside Petroleum. This is one case we know about. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/lawyer-acting-for-east-timor-is-raided-by-australian-agents-8983566.html

LOL all these "anonymous cowards" posting pro-government public relations. If they're tonguing government's balls why would they need anonymity? I smell government public relations all paid for with your taxpayer dollar.

Way to ignore another story and the FISA finding that the government was breaching the Constitution. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/judge-nsa-surveillance-fourth-amendment/4041995/ http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/08/22/fisa-court-ruled-nsa-program-unconstitutional-said-nsa-misled-them/ That you're ignoring these smacks of a shill. The right and left are united on this. On the other side are government workers like yourself living a parasitic existence off the hard-working taxpayer.

> Snowden is a sellout who took what he had and likely ran to the highest bidder with the info.
Not a shred of evidence do you have. Now get a real fucking job, you piece of shit government shill.

Illegal contracts are unenforceable in court so there is no point even writing them down. Hilarious precedent when a bunch of highwaymen tried to sue each other over broken contract. Court hanged them all. Let us hope for same outcome with NSA and RSA Bonnie and Clueless.