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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. What I find unbelievable... by DiSKiLLeR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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    You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
    1. Re:What I find unbelievable... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Most of us would have been surprised if the GCSB *wasn't* spying on the various Pacific Islands. Valid or not, it's rather assumed to be their job to do so. Let's face it - the only reason Fiji and Samoa aren't spying on NZ is because they don't have the funds to pay for it.

    2. Re:What I find unbelievable... by NostalgiaForInfinity · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

      What exactly do you expect spy organizations to do? Why do you think we sink so much money into them.? As long as each organization spies on other countries and they don't exchange data, they are doing their job. The problem is domestic spying, or trying to circumvent rules against domestic spying by exchanging data.

    3. Re:What I find unbelievable... by Rujiel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, the NSA probably isn't proactively spying on you. What they ARE doing is building up a retroactive database of our information, so that its friends can comprehensively destroy us or our reputation at a moment's notice. Hooray for you that you want your own privacy to be destroyed--feel free to hop right off that cliff, I'm sure everyone else will follow.

      Pretty sure I've explained all this to you before, alen, but I suppose that doesn't matter since you're reading from someone else's script.

  2. The sky's blue to human vision. by BLToday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every government tries to spy on every other government. Don't be surprised by it. Don't be surprised when they get caught doing it. How many Israeli spies have the US caught in the last 30 years? And the US is suppose to be Israel's BFF.

  3. Snowden threads: first few comments, same disinfo. by Rujiel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Every single time, like clockwork.
    "This isn't new information!"
    "Well they're a spy agency, what do you expect?"
    "I don't care who reads all my text messages!"

    Even though this isn't representative of what most users will post later on in time.
    It's almost as if a bunch of people are employed to squat on Snowden threads and post the same old reheated bullshit!.. Oh wait, that's totally what's happening.