Maybe nobody. But at least US intelligence agencies are operating in a jurisdiction where the rule of law is strongly enforced.
> Maybe nobody. But at least US intelligence agencies are operating in a jurisdiction where the rule of law is strongly enforced.
Except when it's not.
Is that what FISA is? After all that's gone down anyone making this kind of a statement is either guilty of propaganda or negligence.
US laws do not give much protections to citizens of other countries so the American rule of law is irrelevant for them; American and Russian government agencies have equal authority to spy on them etc., though of course geopolitics makes the two far from equivalent in real-life threat analysis terms for any particular place/org. (What US citizens can count on here is a separate and I guess muddier question.)
Only one I can think of is F-secure, from Finland. Some good posts by them have been voted up here previously.
Independent from US intelligence agencies is no better if you simply trade one master for another.
It is, if the one master is less capable than the other.
What evidence do you have that Russian intelligence agencies are any less/more capable than the US ones?
If anything, it seems like the Russian intelligence agencies are more capable that the US ones right now ...