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Source on that first claim?
by a0zU 5y ago
Source on that first claim?
- curiousllama 5y agoI love HN-3-comments-down. Where else do people just casually claim the global economic and political elite is controlled by a small cabal of foreign intelligence services? And other people jump in to defend! It’s awesome
- Goety 5y agoEvery 'interest' has this data. It comes down to money and time.
- mschuster91 5y agoThe US had a wiretap on Merkel. Do you think Russia, China, Germany, Israel, Iran and North Korea don't have the same on every other major political figure? Let's face the truth: none of us is safe. Everything we do, even if we are just oedinary 9-5 office workers and not politicians or activists, is ending up recorded somewhere. The only way out would be a nation-state effort of open source: everything from the VHDL of the chips over firmware to the OS, and enough money to fund audits of all components. At least, users could then somewhat trust at least their clients, and treat the network as a dumb leaky network of pipes.
- boomboomsubban 5y ago>. Do you think Russia, China, Germany, Israel, Iran and North Korea don't have the same on every other major political figure? Do you think US intelligence don't also have the same? We've already seen a sitting US president hire intelligence agents to bug his enemies and political rivals, it's not like there's any reason to suspect that was a one time occurrence.
- pessimizer 5y agoLeaders under more authoritarian governments don't have to answer to rando voters. They only have to answer to their country's elites, who support what they're doing.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoThe intelligence agencies don't answer to voters either, they only answer to the countries elite who they've been shown to spy on.
- SquishyPanda23 5y ago> We've already seen a sitting US president hire intelligence agents to bug his enemies and political rivals, Do you have a source for this claim?
- boomboomsubban 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
- SquishyPanda23 5y agoHa sorry, I just realized you must have meant Watergate. I misread your original comment as saying it was about the current sitting president.