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Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files
New submitter garyisabusyguy writes with word that, according to London's Sunday Times, "Russia and China have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing MI6 to pull agents out of live operations in hostile countries, according to senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security services," and suggests this non-paywalled Reuters version, too. "MI6 has decided that it is too dangerous to operate in Russia or China," writes the submitter. "This removes intelligence capabilities that have existed throughout the Cold War, and which may have helped to prevent a 'hot' nuclear war. Have the actions of Snowden, and, apparently, the use of weak encryption, made the world less safe?"
Oh right.
*WINK*
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
USA does not need a proof! If we say something you have to trust us! We are the good guys! You hate to trust us! Why would we lie? We are always right! How do you even dare to ask for proof? Traitor. Terrorist! We are coming for you!
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
You can't affect change until you effect it.
It was all snowden's work along!
He stole the data for the sole purpose of giving to Russia and China!
He's an evil communist traitor that needs to be put on an electric chair!
The recent breach by China are just purely coincidental!
Also there's no way that Russia would the resource and know how to obtain such data, and they had to rely on a lone consultant instead of their mighty KGB/FSB !
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
I hate to sound evil or whatever, but I really hope this is what happened. Just to give them a taste of their own johnson to suck on.
I've heard that in the new release of the DSM-VI, "trying to explain human behavior rationally" is itself classified as delusional behavior.