When Edward Snowden gave classified information to
newspapers to expose privacy violations by the U.S. government, he made the
smart move of leaving America immediately. Snowden first went to Hong Kong,
before hopping on a flight to Russia.
As expected, the U.S. wants to get their hands on him with U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry threating action against countries that are
helping Snowden. As expected, both China and Russia are ignoring calls from the
U.S.
Seriously, I don’t understand all these threats issued by
the U.S. Snowden was a former CIA employee who also worked the NSA. He has
information about the U.S. government tapping the phones of Americans as well
as hacking Chinese cellphone companies to steal their SMS data. Even if you
discount the fact that Russia does not have an extradition agreement with
Washington, there is no way Russia is going to hand Snowden over. Russian
President Vladimir Putin has to be a bloody idiot to do that, and say what you
want about Putin, he’s no fool.
Snowden is gone. He’s out of the reach of the U.S.
government and as embarrassing as that is, the U.S. need to accept that fact.
Tearing up your diplomatic relations with China and Russia is not going to
change it.
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Seriously does the U.S. expect China to handover a U.S. "honest" guy for spilling beans that the United States of America is the biggest hacker on earth?
This is laughable!
http://www.straitstimes.com/sites/straitstimes.com/files/InternetDirector2606e.jpg
LONDON (REUTERS) - The British inventor of the World Wide Web accused Western governments of hypocrisy in spying on the Internet while lecturing repressive leaders across the world for doing exactly the same.
Dr Tim Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989 as the Berlin Wall crumbled, said the West was involved in "insidious" online spying that could change the way normal people use their computers.
LONDON (REUTERS) - The British inventor of the World Wide Web accused Western governments of hypocrisy in spying on the Internet while lecturing repressive leaders across the world for doing exactly the same.
Dr Tim Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989 as the Berlin Wall crumbled, said the West was involved in "insidious" online spying that could change the way normal people use their computers.
The United States and Britain are facing domestic and international furore after a security contractor leaked documents that lifted the lid on previously secret American and British programmes to spy on the Internet.
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/world/story/father-the-web-scolds-hypocritical-west-over-spying-20130626
All governments can be accused of hypocrisy at one point or another. That's just a sad laughable fact. The Americans need to stop worrying about face and look at the long-term big picture. Is one whistle-blower reason enough to knock back your relations with 2 of the most powerful countries in the world? That should not be a hard question to answer.
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