When European states or US talk about democracy, freedom, NSA, Assange, US drones killing children, selling weapons, funding most reactionary regimes, human rights, rearmament, etc. I feel I need to read Lenin again!
American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
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#25Interesting part from the Dutch version of the article: Booking is nooit eerder op spionage gestuit. Het bedrijf is er ook niet echt naar op zoek. Zolang die geen hinder oplevert, kost het geen geld. De onuitgesproken consensus onder specialisten binnen het bedrijf is: we vermoeden dat inlichtingendiensten meekijken, maar zolang we ze niet zien, maken we ons niet druk. Which roughly translates to We are not looking f…
Sounds pragmatic, I wonder when this approach will backfire though.
I bet the attitude would have been very different had spying been done by China, Russia, Israel, or even the Netherlands itself.
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#26To understand the ramifications without geopolitical biases and pink glasses think of the headline:
"X spy hacked Y, company stayed silent"
where X is any (quasi)state actor that feels agrieved or entitled, and Y is any giant data collector
The net as it has come to be used is a fractal of bad design in practically all conceivable ways: economic, social, geo(political)
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#27This isn’t surprising to me. I know lots of people who work for this company in the Netherlands, and I’ve heard a lot of inside stories about the questionable business practices that go on there. Starting at the very top, with the fraudulent marketing lies to sell you rooms because there’s only X number of rooms left, which is entirely bogus, and for which the courts have punished them, if I recall. They’re not interested in anything but profit above all else. It is unfortunate, that this is what the tech industry has evolved into.
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#28> The specific intelligence organization—of which the United States has 18—is unknown. This is a great factoid. Eighteen different IC agencies and countless contractors.
And they couldn’t estimate accurately how fast the Taliban was recapturing Afghanistan, a country they occupied for over a decade! Too many cooks in that kitchen!
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#29When European states or US talk about democracy, freedom, NSA, Assange, US drones killing children, selling weapons, funding most reactionary regimes, human rights, rearmament, etc. I feel I need to read Lenin again!
I feel that you should be put in a mass grave with you equally retarded friends.
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#30> The specific intelligence organization—of which the United States has 18—is unknown. This is a great factoid. Eighteen different IC agencies and countless contractors.
And they couldn’t estimate accurately how fast the Taliban was recapturing Afghanistan, a country they occupied for over a decade! Too many cooks in that kitchen!
Of course they could not - the gravy train for 20years... what's not to like