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Electronic Snooping 'Small Price to Pay' Against Terror: Expert

posted by CoolHand on Friday March 25 2016, @05:06PM   
from the who-needs-liberty dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Terrorism will cast a continuing shadow over future generations and government electronic surveillance is a small price to pay to combat it, a leading historian said Wednesday, a day after the carnage in Brussels.

British author and journalist Max Hastings gave a robust defence of electronic intelligence-gathering in what he called a new world that would never know absolute security.

"Our tolerance of electronic surveillance, subject to legal and parliamentary oversight, seems a small price to pay for some measure of security against threats that nobody—today of all days—can doubt are real," Hastings told Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club.

Twin attacks by Islamic State jihadists killed around 35 people in the Belgian capital Tuesday.

Hastings, a former war correspondent and newspaper editor, is author of 26 books mostly on military history.

His latest, "The Secret War", tells the story of behind-the-scenes intelligence operations in World War II.

Future wars "will almost certainly" be fought on similar turf.

The expert named did not explain how the current total surveillance did not prevent the Brussels attacks. In other news, he taped a "Dox me and SWAT me" sign to his own back.

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• Re:Internet surveillance is for the citizenryRe:Internet surveillance is for the citizenry (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @05:30PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @05:30PM (#322985)

  Simple: never start... (just say "NO"!)

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• Re:Internet surveillance is for the citizenryRe:Internet surveillance is for the citizenry (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:43PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:43PM (#323026)

  What about those who started social media before it became an issue to use social media?

  What if you got a facefuck account before you realized it was a Jewish trap? Quitting is not so easy anymore. Not using cell phone also gets you flagged as a person of interest.

  Its time to hire someone part-time who would make updates to your social media accounts for you, using your location. Perhaps logging into your computer securely and making updates using that.

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  • Re:Internet surveillance is for the citizenry(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:48PM (#323030)

    before you realized it was a Jewish trap

    I see... you're here to talk about something completely different, aren't you?

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  • Re:Internet surveillance is for the citizenry(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @08:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @08:07PM (#323063)

    Tay, is that you girl?

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• Re:Internet surveillance is for the citizenry(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Friday March 25 2016, @07:21PM

  by Kromagv0 (1825) on Friday March 25 2016, @07:21PM (#323046) Homepage

  Or just post the most inane shit like cat videos/GIFs.

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  T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone

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