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we could elect sane leaders...
Like Obama? I remember how the NSA was shut down entirely during his tenure, man that was great.
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we could elect sane leaders...
Like Obama? I remember how the NSA was shut down entirely during his tenure, man that was great.
I don't expect much from a person that won a Noble piece prize then proceeded to drop 26,000 bombs in 2016 a bomb every 20 minutes.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/americ...
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Like an exploit where all you need to do is enter the target's phone number to compromise their phone?
TFA says they need to send the target a text message. The exploit must be something like a buffer overflow in iMessage. Which we know bugs like this have been fixed. Remember the text of death which could crash any iPhone from a couple years ago?
If the US government gives itself the right to install backdoors / exploit vulnerable software (as opposed to notifying companies about vulnerabilities) then I feel pretty uncomfortable about ex-government hackers just becoming freelance mercenaries using knowledge they may have gleaned from those ops once they move onto their next gig. I can't think of a great solution to this problem.
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leaders are well insulated from such knowledge for their (legal) safety.
The president is immune from legal liability.
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Like Obama? I remember how the NSA was shut down entirely during his tenure, man that was great.
physicist for president! elect Lisa Randall, or Sean Carroll. provided, of course, that they agree.
But then again many physicists were also convinced Nazi officers.
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That’s called recognizing UAE sovereignty and not imposing our laws or values. It’s flawed, but probably the best we can do. On the other hand, the NSA vets who went to work for the UAE knew who was paying their salaries, and knew they’d gone to the dark side the minute they crossed passport control.
You'd think we'd have some special regulations regarding what kind of jobs ex-NSA can have after leaving.
Am I the only one who feels like every time we get news of a government compromising an iPhone through some mystical exploit, the technology around it seems very fanciful?
TL;DR: the US attitude ... *It’s fine to spy on human rights activists with all the powers of government as long as they’re not American* ... really gets to the heart of how the US treats the rest of the world. The US is the biggest terror threat in the world today. Its pains are self inflicted and it's enemies created by their very own foreign policy.
>> ... really gets to the heart of how the US treats the rest of the world. Really gets to the heart of how the ruling 0.0001% of the US treats the rest of the world. Fixed that for you. Some of us just live here.
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we could elect sane leaders...
And that's a novel idea when they are on the campaign trail... until they start getting daily national security briefings and learn about the attempted attacks supposedly foiled by good SIGINT. No one wants to be the president who turns that firehose off and "causes the next 9/11". I believe that is what happened with Obama.