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Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums

Posted by timothy on from the for-your-own-collective-good dept.

vikingpower writes "In the ever-longer wake of the NSA scandal, much-respected Dutch newspaper NRC today reveals, in English, as mandated by the gravity of the occasion, that the Dutch secret service, the AIVD, hacks internet forums. And yes, that is gross misconduct against Dutch law. The service, whose headquarters are in Zoetermeer, did not yet comment upon the divulgence of the document from Edward Snowden's collection. Incensed Dutch parliamentarians are calling for an enquiry."

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  1. There's only two things I hate in this world... by Sigvatr · · Score: 3, Funny

    People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch

  2. Huh? What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surprise! Every govt has an intelligence service and every intelligence service spends at least part of its time spying on its own citizens. If this is news to you, then you will surely be traumatized when you find out that every country tortures people during wars and most torture a few during times of peace. Who do you think Lady GaGa sells most of her recordings to?

  3. Re:Language? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    but [German is not] a world-popular language.

    Yet.

    Send in the panzers!!!!

    You thought all those comments about grammar-nazis were just jokes, eh?

    Today your diction... tomorrow the world!

  4. Re:/. and mysql? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    (Don't bother: if you did not read the article, you will not understand the comment)

    Haha... very clever -- nearly tricked me into reading the article! We on Slashdot know better than that!