They have wiretapped the entire world with PRISM and other similar secret programs. They have seized and vanished a countless number of people to black site secret prisons.
Who cares about Russia.
Who cares about Russia.
The bad actions of the US and their allies does not excuse the same actions of Russia (or China, or any other country).
It's debatable. Stalin's tactics of "scorched earth" and fighting with human waves may shift the toll.
we can have a separate conversation about that separate issue which I agree needs to be addressed, but not in this thread..
if you need help understanding what whatboutism is here is a great john oliver explanation [0] that will help why this is bad and that pointing out hypocrisy does not create a moral equivalency.
please try to focus on the conversation, and open up a new thread on the issue you would like to discuss, not here.
[0] skip to 6 minutes if you would like to get to that point, I think the entire video is worth a look. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZAPwfrtAFY
>“Once you own the router, you own all the traffic, to include the chance to harvest credentials and passwords,” said Howard Marshall, deputy assistant director of the cyber division at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “It is a tremendous weapon in the hands of an adversary.”
if this were true, more effort needs to be done to encrypt traffic fully, not enabling it to be broken with trusted certificates but disabling the ability in the first place (application) from being decrypted.
Yes, citizens knowing what their democratically elected government is doing is a terrible idea.
And those who aren't caring aren't paying attention