Until these agencies have properly mandated oversight at a level that allows them to dismiss or bring criminal charges against the offended then this situation will never improve. Realistically there has to be some sort of intelligence gathering operations for nation states and if governments are going to crack down on whistle blowers in these organizations then they have to balance it with proper legal oversight.

It is clear the issue of Quality Assurance and control within these organizations is something that is yet to be addressed because everyone is a citizen, even spies and politicians. Until that day comes all that is happening is there are a lot of gung-ho cowboys with access to a lot of very powerful tools and not a lot of respect for the people that it is their duty to protect.

Seeing these things gives me very little re-assurance that these organizations are actually performing their missions as opposed to being on some power trip. They don't create anything of value, they don't build things people can use, they subvert the work of professional IT people who are trying to protect their colleagues and customers businesses from cyber-fraud and then, they treat us with contempt because they have access to the superior resources that our tax dollars equipped them with in the first place.

Obviously they feel they are exempt from demonstrating the same form of ethics that IT professionals have to demonstrate everyday. I would have honestly expected them to act with more decorum however it seems obvious that the power trip is just too much and legally constructed oversight into these organizations is the only thing that will make them focus on the stewardship that they have been entrusted to perform.

I'm glad the insurance companies are so lax with those peoples security as to make them a target for crackers. It shows they are subject to the same type of contempt the insurance companies demonstrated in the first place. People too insular to be concerned deserve to be subject to every exploit there is.

They're the entity you need to send the money you worked for to, because it's theirs. Now shut up and send more money.

I jut have to point out that this happened in Australia. 16 men were picked up for exactly this same reason and then let go without charge. As it turns out the very day before wikileaks data revealed that NSW police were using spyware, an illegal technique as it is the same as domestic spying.

In the media frenzy that followed the politicians whipped the masses into a frenzy on one hand saying "we're all gonna die", then "everybody stay calm" and at the right moment introduced legislation that made the illegal techniques, legal.

I have to wonder if the same thing is happening here to the Belgian people. I am no fan of Islam and it's plethora of human rights violations however, any salient person can observe the governments using Islam to tighten their grip on ordinary people's freedoms.

Unfortunately since objective media doesn't exist anymore those who care can see the persistent slide to a police state world emerging with horror replete with the knowledge that dead men cannot be bought before a court of inquiry.

Reboot now or crash you browser?

The irony is that some percentage of their goal will be achieved no matter what they intended. It's a fools errand that leads them to believe that they have control over these materials for the geological timeframes that they will exist while they decay.

One of the most intriguing things I find about oil is that it is such a useful compound and the best we can do with it is burn it!

Oil prices can only go up in the long term and the pretending that goes on with our politicians in relation to these industries really reveal the cracks and flaws in our democratic processes that stop structural issues like renewable energy deployment being addressed.

Hopefully, as it becomes obvious that the science on these matters is actually correct, the problem solvers will have more influence over the politics. I keep hearing that it will take a long time, however I think it was about 2006 when people started talking about it and here is solar and wind making great impacts on the energy markets already. Perhaps the day will come much sooner and oil prices will become less relevant.

Surely human beings can adapt to this.

But that should not disqualify him from being gay.