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New Zealand Spied On Nearly Two Dozen Pacific Countries

Posted by samzenpus on from the keep-your-eyes-on-your-own-paper dept.

An anonymous reader writes New documents from Edward Snowden indicate New Zealand undertook "full take" interception of communications from Pacific nations and forwarded the data to the NSA. The data, collected by New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau, was then fed into the NSA's XKeyscore search engine to allow analysts to trawl for intelligence. The New Zealand link helped flesh out the NSA's ambitions to intercept communications globally.

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  1. Re:What I find unbelievable... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because there's nothing you can do about it. Voting is a fraudulent system, you vote between two people that are handpicked by their parties to keep the status quo. You can make noise, but no one will listen. No, you've got to take away everything from people before they'll rise up and force change. The government keeps people just content enough to not do anything, and outliers get arrested before they can start anything.

    There's no change because it would take a nationwide teardown for that to happen. Sorry.

  2. Re:What I find unbelievable... by geekmux · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is the general attitude of the public simply not giving a shit. This is currently front page news in the New Zealand Herald but it'll quickly be gone and forgotten, and nothing will change.

    What is the deal with the general public's apathy when it comes to NSA/GCQH/GCSB/etc ?

    Are we really at the point where it's too late to do anything about this and just admit defeat?

    There are two groups of people involved in this issue.

    There are those who still hold on to the belief that citizens can effectively create change, and are still enabled vehicles to do so.

    And then there are those who are smart enough to know better.

    A standing president tried to warn the American people about the Military Industrial Complex. What did that do? Not a damn thing. Should you be surprised? Not really. George Orwell warned you about all of this other shit over sixty years ago. No one listened. No one believed it could ever happen. And now it has happened. And there are no vehicles left for you to use to change or stop it.