The Director of National Intelligence has now responded to the unveiling of the fact that the NSA inserted backdoors in various forms of encryption and recruited internal spies at telco companies with one of his typically ridiculous statements using carefully parsed words. It sounds like the NSA rushed out that statement, because the attempt to assure the public that it's just being used on bad people leaves open a pretty large loophole.
So, once again, the NSA's attempt to insist that what it's doing is narrow and targeted and just after "the bad guys," yet again only breeds further reasons to trust the NSA even less. As White notes, this whole situation is particularly disturbing because so much can be classified under "others" that should be seen as reasonable and normal activity of a person who questions whether the government is really acting as a representative of the people.
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So, once again, the NSA's attempt to insist that what it's doing is narrow and targeted and just after "the bad guys," yet again only breeds further reasons to trust the NSA even less. As White notes, this whole situation is particularly disturbing because so much can be classified under "others" that should be seen as reasonable and normal activity of a person who questions whether the government is really acting as a representative of the people.
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