Some Hackers Unknowingly Gathering Intel For the NSA

itwbennett writes As reported Wednesday by the news website The Intercept, the U.S. National Security Agency and its intelligence partners are sifting through data stolen by state-sponsored and freelance hackers on a regular basis in search of valuable information. A page from an internal wiki used by the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada and the U.K, which was last modified in 2012 and was among the files leaked by Edward Snowden reads: "Hackers are stealing the emails of some of our targets... by collecting the hackers' 'take' we 1) get access to the emails ourselves and 2) get insights into who's being hacked."

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Re:What I want to know is?

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Because most of those of us with the courage to post under our own /. ID recognize that Snowden, while performing a large public service also immensely damaged the USA & other allied countries in revealing to people that are the enemies of everything that we believe in how we spy on them, what we know & how we learned it.

Snowden's services in the former do not make the latter disappear & if apprehended Snowden should pay for them. Until then, let him benefit from the "freedom" that Putin is offering him.