Angry Jesus writes:
"German language magazine 'Bild am Sonntag' reports that, in response to Obama's recent order to stop spying on Angela Merkel and other heads of 'friendly' states, the NSA has instead ramped up spying on everybody Merkel communicates with. Cory Doctorow points out that this action demonstrates that the NSA is out of control and deliberately disobeying a presidential order with a level of duplicity worthy of a four year-old."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:55AM
Well, since Godwin is already out of the box...
Back in 1939-1945 Germany were the despotic authoritarian fascist bullies and the US were the freedom-loving champions of democracy.
Today I think it looks more the other way round.
Would you really have wanted that "former head of the German state" to have had access to such surveillance over the rest of the world?
Posting anon because I am genuinely frightened of the US gov. Yay chilling effect!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:32PM
You honestly think that makes a difference? Unless you've used TOR, you've sent your IP address in the clear to soylentnews.org with every single packet. Even if you accessed SN over HTTPS, just the number of packets will probably reveal that you were posting that comment. I'd be very surprised if the NSA couldn't figure out who you are if they want.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.