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"Collect It All": Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage &
"Collect It All": Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage & Spying on U.N.
Nearly a year after he first met Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald continues to unveil new secrets about the National Security Agency and the surveillance state. His new book, "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State," is being published today. It includes dozens of previously secret NSA documents, including new details on how the NSA routinely intercepts routers, servers and other computer hardware devices being exported from the United States. According to leaked documents published in the book, the NSA then implants backdoor surveillance tools, repackages the devices with a factory seal and sends them on. http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/1...n_greenwald_on |
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I for one am so sick of hearing the name Edward Snowden and about the "evil" NSA. It would be more worrisome if the NSA was Russian, Chinese, North Korean, or another oppressive country, but it is the USA. The average person has nothing to fear with metadata they're reportedly collecting, or most of these other alleged activities. People should be worrying more about phishing, malware, worms and other criminal activity that isn't happening due to NSA activities. People will be more harmed by clicking on some email with an embedded image than NSA-collected data.
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I disagree. Trust has been destroyed. And your or my opinions about whether or not we believe these are the good guys or the bad guys, or what they have been doing is wrong or right, does not alter this degradation of trust. Damage has been done.
Here is an excerpt from a recent article by Bruce Schneier which appeared in the Boston Review and was later posted on the author's blog: Quote:
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Nothing to fear indeed.
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