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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. Re:Language? by PimpBot · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Dutch normally speak Dutch, because, well, it's their native tongue. Dutch itself is pretty close to German, but neither are world-popular language. As such, most people in the Netherlands speak English as well, because they're a hub of business. Publishing this in English ensures it's widely readable to the rest of the world.

  2. Color me surprised. by rmdingler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just because so many governments do it, it doesn't make it any more right. Quite the contrary. This revelation only removes "the Moral High Ground" from another nation's people.

    --
    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    Ernest Hemingway

  3. Does that make it right? No? Then SO WHAT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sick of this "Everyone does it!".

    Child trafficking is rampant.

    So it's OK if I do it?

  4. 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!

  5. 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!