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Absolutely true. It's just tiresome to hear internet people decide the NSA is $GENERIC_VILLAIN when they're an intelligence agency with a given remit. Of cour
by psunavy03 1mo ago
Absolutely true. It's just tiresome to hear internet people decide the NSA is $GENERIC_VILLAIN when they're an intelligence agency with a given remit. Of course their job is to hack and penetrate foreign systems to get intelligence information for the Federal government. That's well-documented. But that's not the same as claiming their job is to create chaos for $PARANOID_REASON. That's internet tinfoil-hattery.
- rgblambda 1mo agoI don't think anyone was claiming that or anything remotely close to it. I was explaining why the NSA wouldn't necessarily be in favour of more digitally secure infrastructure, because you seemed to be the only person in the thread who didn't understand.