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An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA

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Re: An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA

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Post by losethos »

You are blaspheming the holy spirit like a nigger.

God says... C:\TAD\Text\HUCKFINN.TXT

, too, because one of the others might get broke on a snag or something. We fixed up a short forked stick to hang the old lantern on, because we must always light the lantern whenever we see a steamboat coming down-stream, to keep from getting run over; but we wouldn't have to light it for up-stream boats unless we see we was in what they call a "crossing"; for the river was pretty high yet, very low banks being still a little under water; so up-bound boats didn't always run the channel, but hunted

Re: An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA

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Post by a3n »

coldtea wrote: post #23
Goopplesoft wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that honestly almost felt like a challenge to his fellow presenters and show caring by boycotting the conference as well. EDIT, Also NSA is a intelligence agency: spying on foreigners seems to me like it'd be their objective, regardless of the revelations... Lets not act surprised about this now. Other foreign intelligence agencies do their share of spying on foreigners too (again, their objective). Unless you'…

> NSA is a intelligence agency: spying on foreigners seems to me like it'd be their objective, regardless of the revelations... And the objective of the KKK was to spread fear on certain parts of the population. That doesn't make it OK. Objectives, even obvious ones, can be shitty too. Also, spying on elect foreigners, doing targeted work to get intelligence data on terrorism etc is one thing. Spying on almost everyb…

> helping some major corporation get a stronghold in some country is not about "national security".

While I agree with your overall message, and even the part I quote, if you think "holistically" then it is in the US interest to dominate trade negotiations through intelligence. For example, it's better for US national security if Brazil had bought a US fighter. It strengthens the financial health of Boeing, makes it easier for the US to keep up a certain level of capability (paid for by foreignors, win-win!), has money coming in to the US for decades as a result of the maintenance contracts, and there's a non-zero chance that the software for flying those planes have backdoors and loggers.

I'm not saying it's right, but the security forces and corporations are very much motivated for this to happen, with ready made excuses of national security to justify it.

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