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NSA releases open-source infosec tool

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you dont understand because you work in their PR dept. i wont go into the evidence of intelligence agencies involvement in false flag terrorist incidents. you can look it up for yourself. try 'gladio'

> you work in their PR dept Do you make this assumption about everyone who disagrees with you?

its hardly an assumption, the thing was an advert mate.

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This one sided view of their marketing pitch is exactly what's wrong with them and, to some extent HN in general, in it's Californian money & tech bubble... Seen from the outside, this kind of tech-trip-before-thinking-globally, or solutionism, is why people are upset, and rightly so. Snowden has shown, as many others have before and after, that they spy for economic and political gain against ally, they don't even r…

Criticising the NSA for spying on the wrong targets makes as little sense as criticising soldiers because your country is at war with the wrong enemy.

The army doesn't normally go off and attack another country in secret without even telling their own government.

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you dont understand because you work in their PR dept. i wont go into the evidence of intelligence agencies involvement in false flag terrorist incidents. you can look it up for yourself. try 'gladio'

> you dont understand because you work in their PR dept. Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly.

So you respond to a personal attack with a personal attack? Or am I missing something.

EDIT

Good you're reading this. Shilling is increasing on HN. Is there a plan in place to deal with it?

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Criticising the NSA for spying on the wrong targets makes as little sense as criticising soldiers because your country is at war with the wrong enemy.

The army doesn't normally go off and attack another country in secret without even telling their own government.

heh.

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To that point, if NSA actually shut down tomorrow, the Baltimore/DC metro area would collapse into financial ruin. Not exaggerating.

Bring it on--maybe I could finally afford a house around here!

I don't think you understand what I mean.

The area would turn into Detroit, businesses would leave en masse or close down. I'm talking on the order of 150k people losing their job either immediately or when the govt. contractor they work for shuts down.

You wouldn't want to buy a house in the area at that point.

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kinda extreme. Most of them probably go there for employment opportunity, nothing to do with whatever ideology. Calling them names just sound so immature and unprofessional at best.

yes im sure there are some very nice very unconscious people working for GCHQ and NSA. wasnt particularly having a go at the pawns. i know tho that they believe they are really doing essential work. they would have to.

I don't know about the work quality they have. I would expect they are highly bloated like any other big corps. I think the general feelings toward NSA or GCHQ should be directed at upper management who play games without accountability. Even though I do not disagree with their intention - which I do believe they are also trying to solve problems at hand, their approaches and lack of insight in technology can be damaging.

I find people criticize government without a good understanding on how it works. A cumulative resentment due to lacking of actual person(s) to blame. Criticisms without better solutions and intention to help are just as lame as those incompetent upper managers trying to solve problems by repeating mistakes in the past.

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