NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy
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#2But he assured us everything was above board and legal.
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#3I knew we'd get some action from congress over this fiasco.
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#4As if that will help public perception of these companies, I think after these outings of the companies in question, nothing stays the same, ever.
I personally will never ever trust any company with putting stuff into their systems.
For me the cloud as offered by them is dead and buried forever, even though I know that the NSA can capture anything with their split network rooms, the companies just lost my trust by lying as first.
It would have been less worse if they said that they were forced, but no, the arrogant adolescent nerd boys management thought it was ok to lie.
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#5Meh. To me this just seems like codification of what's already happening. If there are criminal charges against an NSA contractor, what's stopping the government from stopping it by claiming "state secrets"?
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#6The best thing that can come from this is that each and every company name is published.
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#7CISPA anyone? Now we know why that law was pushed so hard, and we now have another strong reason to oppose this tactic.
But Keith usually gets what Keith wants, so I'd bet money on it passing this time around.
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#8But he assured us everything was above board and legal.
To turn a phrase, if you're operating legally you don't need immunity.
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#9But he assured us everything was above board and legal.
Ah, see, he was referring to North Korean law, not American law. So he was technically making the most truthful or "least untruthful" statement he could make.
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#10This is a brilliant end-run around the fourth amendment. Sure, the government isn't allowed to do mass warrantless surveillance, but they can order companies to do it illegally and then pardon them.