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GET IT ONCE AND FOR ALL: THEY STOCKPILE E V E R Y T H I N G

Meaning NSA stockpiles e v e r y t h i n g.
What can be clearer than that.
If only Americans would know to unite and strong like that, begin boycotting the hell of everyone, of government, of corporations, you name it:

“The NSA has never said much about the open secret that it collects and sometimes even pays for information about hackable flaws in commonly used software. But in a rare statement following his retirement last month, former NSA chief Keith Alexander acknowledged and defended that practice. In doing so, he admitted the deeply contradictory responsibilities of an agency tasked with defending Americans’ security and simultaneously hoarding bugs in software they use every day.

“I would love to have all the terrorists just use that one little sandbox over there so that we could focus on them. But they don’t.”

“When the government asks NSA to collect intelligence on terrorist X, and he uses publicly available tools to encode his messages, it is not acceptable for a foreign intelligence agency like NSA to respond, ‘Sorry we cannot understand what he is saying’,” Alexander told the Australian Financial Review, which he inexplicably granted a 16,000-word interview. “To ask NSA not to look for weaknesses in the technology that we use, and to not seek to break the codes our adversaries employ to encrypt their messages is, I think, misguided. I would love to have all the terrorists just use that one little sandbox over there so that we could focus on them. But they don’t.””

CONTINUE READING HERE:  Former NSA Chief Defends Stockpiling Software Flaws for Spying

The NSA has been widely criticized for using its knowledge of security flaws for spying, rather than working to patch those flaws and make internet users more secure. Alexander’s defense of the practice boils down to the notion that separating friend and foe when seeking to break codes has become a nearly impossible task.

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