One hopes that someone is keeping track of the NSA's most virulent "battered wives" in Congress, and will be making their support very public next time they face re-election.
Of course, the next challenge will be tracking and outing them in their post-election (this politician has been bought and paid for by...) careers. See which companies support the NSA's treatment of the people, the law and the government by employing its most ardent defendants.
The only reason no evidence has surfaced showing that the NSA is currently spying on members of Congress and/or the president is that no senior NSA officers have denied it yet.
The pattern is clear: they say "but we didn't do x", and a couple of days later a leak is published showing that they did, in fact do "x".
One has to assume that NSA employees are losing family/friends/loved ones, who have realised that they are some of the people being illegally spied upon. This letter is in recognition of that, and trying to help employees save their personal relationships.
Of course, when you have already figured that your "loved one" used the nation's premier spying body to look up information about you and then lied to you about it, this particular cover-up effort won't help a great deal.
He is displaying classic narcissistic tendencies. Inability to recognise that the behaviours he criticises in others are in fact behaviours he himself indulges in. Inability to accept that he has any failings. Total lack of empathy.
Well done, Charles. You have managed to destroy your own reputation, and still blame others for it.
"On a slightly different note, It's going to be interesting watching the lawsuits when XP officially becomes unsupported next year. Especially after the first remote OS vulnerability is found".
What lawsuits? Who will be sued? Microsoft is not obliged to support its products forever any more than any other company - and they support their operating systems a lot longer than Apple does. Alternatively, perhaps you might like a ten year old version of Linux - if you could find one. Have you tried firing up ten year old games? Some of them have been patched, but others just refuse to run on Windows 7 or Windows 8. Is that the game publisher's fault? Fine, sue EA. Good luck with that, you couldn't even get your money back if you bought Sim City and found it didn't run in the first few weeks it was out.
Sorry Arthur, but your comment makes absolutely no sense.
One expects that in ten to twenty years time the US will find it has recreated itself as a technological backwater that nobody wants to do business with because it cannot be trusted.
How long will it take to earn back some trust? How many governments are jumping right now to determine how quickly they can move away from US technology?
It won't be just India. This is very much a "watch this space" issue, and it is highly likely that the currently US-centred industry for online data storage will scatter to all corners.
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Of course, the next challenge will be tracking and outing them in their post-election (this politician has been bought and paid for by...) careers. See which companies support the NSA's treatment of the people, the law and the government by employing its most ardent defendants.
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The pattern is clear: they say "but we didn't do x", and a couple of days later a leak is published showing that they did, in fact do "x".
On the post: Brazilian President Blasts NSA Spying In Front Of World Leaders -- Including Obama -- At UN
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On the post: NY Times: NSA Should Be Barred From Requiring Companies To Introduce Surveillance Backdoors
On the post: NSA Seeks To Reassure Family & Friends Of NSA Employees & Contractors By Sending A Letter With More Lies
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Of course not. You're forgetting that those are both domestic incidents, and thus outside the NSA's remit.
/sarcasm
On the post: NSA Seeks To Reassure Family & Friends Of NSA Employees & Contractors By Sending A Letter With More Lies
Of course, when you have already figured that your "loved one" used the nation's premier spying body to look up information about you and then lied to you about it, this particular cover-up effort won't help a great deal.
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Well done, Charles. You have managed to destroy your own reputation, and still blame others for it.
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I think you missed the line item in the latest NSA budget: "Research into puppy pain tolerance and response to visual images of puppy death - $147m".
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What lawsuits? Who will be sued? Microsoft is not obliged to support its products forever any more than any other company - and they support their operating systems a lot longer than Apple does. Alternatively, perhaps you might like a ten year old version of Linux - if you could find one. Have you tried firing up ten year old games? Some of them have been patched, but others just refuse to run on Windows 7 or Windows 8. Is that the game publisher's fault? Fine, sue EA. Good luck with that, you couldn't even get your money back if you bought Sim City and found it didn't run in the first few weeks it was out.
Sorry Arthur, but your comment makes absolutely no sense.
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How long will it take to earn back some trust? How many governments are jumping right now to determine how quickly they can move away from US technology?
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Trust is hard-earned, easily lost.
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