Some are too apathetic to procrastinate. Slashdot is my way of avoiding apathy and is perfect to practise the zen of avoidance.

Well these disclosures are attacks on them. They are losing face because they are being exposed.
Just when they think attention on them is waning, they get hit again and again. They probably do not care but their 'we're the good guys because we fight terrorists' persona is definitely crumbling.
That's not a judgement on why they do what they do. For example, they MUST find out what is happening in the world, so they crack into friendly governments. Just goes to show that the NSA operates outside of normal diplomacy and by their actions do not trust other friendly intelligence organisations or the controlling governments.
I wouldn't be surprised if they are monitoring representatives and senators of their own government. That's scary especially if they achieve self consciousness and try to become our overlords.

Hmmm... Maybe you/GP is right.

You've got to take one more step. These new laws will allow French intelligence agencies to spy on the NSA as well. As you point out though, the NSA are aware of this and the whole 'cold war' thing gets reborn.

Wow! And here, everybody is blaming DICE/SJW/SystemD for it and APK for the cure.

I'm pretty sure there was a big sarcastic WOOSH there somewhere.

The NSA are getting mighty pissed by now.

Not so.
There are more devices out there than you think:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/t...

I smelled formaldehyde from the exhaust following one of them.

So how fast does it accelerate to 62.5 mph?
(just asking for us metric folk)

This may be slightly off topic but I'm very careful whom I give my number to. I do get human calls from certain businesses like car servicing/hotel/insurance surveys and I'm comfortable with that as I gave them my contact number.
What gets me is I also receive calls from charities, solar sellers, telco sellers etc, so someone is trading my ph number. I have blocked these (many are voip) and currently I get none of them. However every time I'm asked for my number, I ask why and often refuse to give it to them as there are other ways they can contact me.
So you can be proactive here and not share your number especially if it is not required. Otherwise block, block, block!

Meh! I bought a new HP x510 just recently. It's now orphaned and WHS v1 fully updated and running 2003 server Sp2 so it should recognise >2TB drives. I got it because the hardware specs were much better than equivalent current NAS boxes. So after installing 3 x 3TB drives in it, the WHS software trashed one of the drives (set as a WHS backup and not pooled) because I copied just over 2TB of files onto it, even though RDing into the box showed the 2003 server could handle the size, WHS couldn't.
So now I've got 2 partitions on each drive. 1 at about 1.98TB and another just under 1TB. WHS still can't pool them, but I created shares that are perfectly accessible.
Before I did this, I used it as intended for backups with WHS and worked on 1 out of 3 machines. I'm still playing with it and I'll install a 2TB OS drive later on. Otherwise there's quite a few backup solutions out there that can backup to the shares I've created.
I'm not worried though as I can do a headless install Win 8.1 (it has drive pooling) or look around for another OS as long as it works OK with stock drivers.

I like cracking my soft boiled egg pointy side up.

Anyone for Elevenis?
My Fivefathers....
I was one and a half way through the door.

Good point. Somehow all the attention focussed on Kaspersky makes me think that they are not duty bound in any way to western intelligence. They have the resources to harden their software. Unfortunately it comes down to a matter or trust. Do you trust Kaspersky because they are not in the big 5 or do you trust the home grown product?
In the end I don't trust any of them, but I run Kaspersky to stop virii and most malware on a critical Win machine. It just makes me angry that security, lo that the net itself is so full of holes that hardening my systems becomes impossible. Not only that, but it is difficult to find out IF you've been hacked.