[Cryptography] Angry Cryptographers...

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

This latest NSA atrocity is the last straw.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-angry-birds-nsa-british-spy-surveillance-20140127,0,4194888.story#axzz2riz3A5TH

The military can spin this any way they like but the way I see it is that a
group of officers of questionable loyalty have been spying on everyone and
everything for their own gratification. This isn't about stopping
terrorism, its just because they can.

The sheer scope of the spying and the Abu Ghraib photographs call the
officers loyalty into question. They didn't raise any questions when the
previous President ordered the use of torture on prisoners of war. They
didn't raise any questions about the reclassification of prisoners of war
as 'illegal combatants' or torture as 'enhanced interrogation'. So now they
are not due any benefit of the doubt when they try to explain their
motivations or demonstrate their loyalty.


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