You have this totally unjustified, groundless sense of moral superiority over Russians
A simple well-tested answer to anti-Americans like yourself is thus: whatever wrong you can accuse the US of doing within the last 100 years, Russia (or China) has done on wider and deeper scale in the last 50.
This justifies my sense of moral superiority. We aren't perfect, but we are far better than Russia.
Note how the Ukrainian unrest to oust Viktor Yanukovych was a natural popular uprising, but the pro-Russian backlash absolutely must be a Russian Psy-Op.
That's because the participants of "pro-Russian backlash" are guided by Russians (not merely Psy-Ops, but actual fighting men acting as force-multipliers). But, of course, a Russian would deny it — or demand indisputable proof.
But what can not be denied, is that these people are carrying Russian flags — and replace Ukrainian flags with them, whenever they capture a government building. That alone is treason. Considering, that Russia is not merely a powerful foreign country vying for influence, but an enemy of Ukraine (which it obviously is since February 27, when Russian military invaded Crimea), this particular treason is most heinous. Its goal is not to change the general direction of Ukraine's foreign policy, they endanger territorial integrity and even the entire sovereignty of their country. There are no excuses for that.
Is it possible the situation in Ukraine is too complex for sound bytes in the 24 hour news cycle
It may have been so before February 27. Since then it is perfectly clear-cut. Russia is an invader, Ukrainians openly taking its side are traitors/collaborators, and attempts (such as yours) to paint it as "well, its complicated" are nothing but propaganda-cover for Kremlin.
Is it possible that neither 'uprising' is directly influenced by an outside government?
No, it is not possible. The pro-Russia uprising is most definitely orchestrated by Russian military. Ukraine's intelligence has arrested some such Russian servicemen — though clearly, not enough.
Is it possible that BOTH 'uprisings' are directly influenced by outside governments?
The pro-Russian uprising is, as I said, not merely "influenced" but created by Russia. It is possible, that the anti-Yanukovich revolt was so influenced, but it is unlikely — considering how unprepared "the suspects" turned out to be. Yet, even if it were directly managed by the US-embassy — as viewers of Kremlin-TV are being led to believe — that's not an equivalent to what Russia is doing and seeking to do. US is not trying to annex Ukraine or any part thereof — the last time US annexed anyone was in 19th century. Putin, on the other hand, seeks to rebuild as much of the USSR as he can — his Russia today is an enemy.
It is not. It may be for us, but today's Russians — after over a decade of Putin's propaganda efforts — are aching for a revanche. Drunk on the easy success of annexation of Crimea from defenseless Ukraine (approved by nearly 80% of the Russians — I doubt, US had this kind of unity since WW2), they are already joking that Alaska is called "Ice-Crimea". Compared to an average Russian, Putin today is a moderate.
Do not be fooled — if you knew Russian and read their popular web-sites, you'd know... Without that capability to check for yourself, believe me.
If the idea of Comcast buying out Time Warner Cable to become the largest cable company in America wasn't enough to make you worry
That idea is very worrying — because it is about two competitors merging. However, with both of them being very-very cozy with the governing party, the merger is all but decided, unfortunately.
If it were to happen, it would give the combined company something on the order of 26 million TV subscribers
That's a lot, but less than the other combo and, more importantly, TV is not primary line of business for AT&T...
That said, with Internet-speeds continuing to rise — net-neutrality or not — it will only become easier to deliver content over it. Netflix may have made a special deal with Verizon, but smaller IPTV providers (like KartinaTV used by my relatives to watch channels from the former USSR and Israel) are doing just fine without any special arrangements.
Unlike mathematicians, who are subject only to the secular laws, doctors are governed by medical boards and other certification bodies with professional ethics — a term sufficiently vague to drive a truck through — being among requirements.
If a non-profit CEO can be illegallyfired over a $1000 donation to a cause, should not doctors participating in activities, that enough noisy people find objectionable, be permanently black-listed?
That's an idea, though... Why not black-list these mathematicians — to ensure, they can never find employment outside of government? What can possibly go wrong?
I don't think, they worry about non-US users
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If you're in the U.S. you'll need to disable your anonymizer to access videos on Hulu.
I suspect, it is the anonymity, that they wish to defeat — to be able to track users and sell the information.
Hulu may make Hollywood happy by temporarily locking out foreign users
designing parts more interesting a Civil War flat-deck monitor is going to be difficult, at least for me
Moreover, if you had a particular knock for designing, you'd be able to find a manufacturer to implement your designs and sell them. A reasonably free Capitalist country is very conductive to just this sort of activity...
I'm probably better off ordering copies from Shapeway's than buying my own 3D printer and plastic.
This may still be true today, but consider the possibilities of the future: no need to pay and wait for delivery, no gas is burned to deliver your part. The hale and healthy men and women doing the deliveries can instead do something more useful, and the roads have fewer trucks on them. By downloading somebody else's design and printing it locally, you get your part within an hour or two — and for much less.
But in the telecom industry it happens all the time.
Because governments — both local and federal — make it too hard for meaningful competition to arise. Some of the hurdles come from well-intentioned regulations and laws, others — from corrupt practices of rent-seeking politicians. But the result is the same, one needs to be Google-sized giant to enter into a telecom business today, whereas a hundred years ago there were competing phone companies — even running wires parallel to each other.
Whereas we both agree on what we don't want, it seems, we are at odds on how to achieve that. You'd rather outlaw the things you don't like, whereas I'd like healthy competition to sort things out.
Logos have little-to-nothing to do with Digital Rights Management. Your ability to modify a purchased (or freely downloaded) design should be out of the scope of this discussion.
I do mind DRM designed to only allow me to buy a design of something that is already manufactured by many places from just one vendor.
The DRM I was talking about would've prevented a customer from 3D-printing more items of a particular design, than the designer's license allowed. Like you, I would not want a printer, that was designed to reject otherwise perfectly fine consumables because they were supplied by a competitor. I make a point of defeating such designs in my own "2D" printer today just to spite its manufacturer.
And charge me $20 for a 5 cent part.
Yes, I would find that offensive too. Competition, however, would never allow that to happen.
Never mind that the results ALWAYS turn to shit...
Chile, where we succeeded, is Latin America's top economy — now and for the last twenty years or more. Cuba, where we failed, is a shithole. As is Venezuela, where we decided not to bother...
The world is being run by idiots.
This is true, unfortunately. And most of the idiots are wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt.
Several giant solar collectors in geosynchronous orbit are beaming microwaves down to the island from 36 000 km above Earth.
What if they miss the aim one day by half a degree — the beam hits outside of whatever is supposed to process it dirtside? What will the effect be — and how far away must that island be located for reasonable level of safety?
You are quite right. And yet, I can't shake the feeling of respect for them — they are doing a much better job collecting and using the data, than the government agencies do. Surely, Department of Energy (for just one example) would love to have such details of our energy use. But they can not and — run by bureaucrats and politicians, rather than profit-motivated free people — will never able to.
Intelligent energy-use would be very helpful in reducing costs, waste and pollution. Somebody should be collecting this information. Given a choice between a government agency and a corporation, I'll always choose the latter:
They would not send armed thugs to "euthanize" my livestock.
That said, one advantage to being fast is if you have to make adjustments to your model that are only discovered after printing.
That's true for the actual designers, which, I'm sad to admit, I am not. I foresee myself buying other people's designs to "print" locally — instead of waiting for the Chinese manufacturers to buy (or steal) the designs, then implementing them and shipping the results to me...
I dunno. Speed would not be high on my list of priorities. My dishwasher takes over 2 hours to wash the load, and that's acceptable. The reliability — which you mention second — is much more important in my opinion.
And then comes the standardization of the data-files and of the raw materials.
I would not mind paying a designer of a printable widget for his work — so a DRM of some kind would be alright, even if irritating. Because I'd still be able to have the piece in a couple of hours after buying it, instead of waiting at least a day for the (expensive) overnight shipping.
even though the vast majority of both populaces just want to get on with their lives in peace and quiet
That is true about American populace, but demonstrably false about the Russian. After their blitz-krieg in Crimea, Russians are drunk on power — not only threatening the rest of Ukraine, but referring to Alaska as "Ice-Crimea".
You would not know it from English-language Russian media, but, much like Arabs' real attitude towards Jews can only be grasped from reading Arab-language sites, anyone capable of reading Russian (like myself) should have no doubts about revanchism of Russia's populace. Believe it or not, Putin seems moderate compared to his nation's prevailing mood today.
NOPE, diplomatic means goverment means NOT CIVILIAN.
Yes, governmental and civilian are different things. However, intercepting diplomatic communications is just as (if not more) against the law as intercepting communications by your citizenry. In other words, interception of Zimmerman's telegram was just as (or more) wrong/illegal/unethical as intercepting a private citizen's phone call would've been.
yeah, how many people used a radio for transmitting for private stuff back then? And how many people use the internet for private stuff today.
Does not make any difference — Bletchley Park were listening to everything they could get. As does NSA today... That the NSA is able to get more data — thanks to the better technology available — does not, in itself, make it unethical or even illegal.
nope, you are not [at a declared war]
Oh, so if Congress voted to declare war on Al Qaeda after 9/11/2001, you would've had no objections to NSA's massive data-gathering? Of course, you still would have had. As would I. Hence my comment about "distinction without difference"...
1. "Envisioning the future" vs. working on programs of mass-surveillance against the own population.
NSA's surveillance has not — as of today — harmed an innocent American. It has a scary potential to become a dangerous tool in the hands of a totalitarian-minded executive by arming him with information about opposition, that he really ought not have.
The Zimmermann Telegram was sent during war-time via diplomatic channels [emphasis mine]
There, you said it. Diplomatic channels ought to be sacred — much as (if not more!) so than the channels used by private citizens.
The Enigma was primarily used for military encryption.
All radio-traffic had to be listened to in order to find enemy's messages. Much like the Internet-traffic today needs to be sifted through...
The Allies were at (world) war against Germany.
We are at war with terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda and other non-governmental groups today. In addition, we remain subject to espionage efforts by various other countries. Consider, for just one example, the work Russia's subversives are doing to start a civil war in Ukraine today — to justify their invasion and annexation of the country. Can't a similar method be used in Southern California, Arizona, and Texas? Shouldn't a country's intelligence be working on preventing such things?
The war against Germany was officially declared.
Distinction without difference. When elite troops without insignia, but with very modern weapons (and Russian accents) occupy government buildings in Alaska (which Russians already refer to as "Ice-Crimea") to oversee a "referendum" on separating from US and joining Russia, they will do so without a formal declaration of war either.
The issue at hand is the surveillance of a nation's own, innocent citizens without cause or even suspicion
Bletchley Park was listening on as much radio traffic as they could — trying to find the enemy's messages in it.
That's no different from NSA listening to as much Internet-traffic today. In both cases they don't consider themselves bound by limits of men-created laws — only technical difficulties, which ought to be overcome.
Perhaps, that's a wrong attitude, but exposing your side's capabilities to the enemies is not how one goes about correcting it.
not only a moral right, but a moral obligation to expose the work
No, not if the exposing weakens your side and strengthens the enemy(ies).
Snowden Leaks?... *looks around*... I seemed to have missed the declaration of World War 3, the US and Russia are not officially at war and they are certainly not shooting at each other (to everyone's immense good fortune, because, y'know, nukes).
If you don't think, Russia is an enemy, then you have not been paying attention. You may not have anything against them, but they are sore and butthurt at the West and anxious for a revanche.
lol, thanks for cobbling together one of the most tortured analogies I've seen on this
The analogy was nowhere near as tortured, as your pathetic attempt at sarcasm... Back to the point.
Was the Enigma machine intercepting communications of millions of civilians?
First, a bit of education: The Enigma machines were used by the Germans to communicate — Bletchley Park were intercepting all radio traffic they could intercept looking for encrypted messages by the Germans.
That such intercepts covered mostly the military (rather than "millions of civilians") was simply because no one else has used radio at the time — not because the laws were better at the time, or people were better at following them.
Today's data-collection by the NSA is no different in principle from Bletchley Park's attempts to listen on as much radio traffic as they could. Their limits back then were purely technical — not legal or ethical.
Bletchley park was strictly a military/couter intelligence operation working against Axis, while the NSA is fcuking surveillance on a world scale against *everyone*.
Bletchley Park-associated radio-operators were listening to everything they could listen to — that it did not cover every British (or American) citizen at the time is not because they had some overriding scruples, but is explained by the two simple facts:
Most of their fellow citizens did not have radios
No capability to listen to such massive amounts of communications existed.
Today everyone — friends and foes alike — do have and use various means of communications (Internet, SMS, analog and digital voice calls, etc.) and so, naturally, NSA are working on capabilities to intercept all of that. Just as Bletchley Park would have, had the technology been there at the time.
Now, possibly, the diminishment of citizens' privacy ought to outweigh the risk of those same citizens being struck by a new non-governmental terrorist group or the good old spying by a foreign government. We need to be talking about it — Congressional hearings did reveal NSA overstepping its mandate and, in any case, no one is quite clear, what the mandate is.
But to simply take it all and bring it over to Russians of all people — the resurging enemy with revanchist ambitions — is a crime.
Imagine for a minute, an associate of Alan Turing escaping Bletchely Park in 1944 with files recording the facility's activity — and with details of its capability to decrypt Enigma traffic.
He is outraged about the government's attempts — often successful — to intercept other people messages (some intercepts leading to deaths of hundreds) and is smart enough to envision the future, where such ungentlemanly conduct will become common place. And so he goes public with the materials he took with him, holding a press-conference somewhere — say, in Switzerland.
Because none of the UK allies will have him, and he fears the Allies' long hand in neutral Switzerland, he takes refuge in Germany, where he is promptly drained of all the information he carries (in files and head)? Germans modify their encryption practices and Bletchley Park is no longer able to decode the communications.
Should the man's life not be hell after that? Or should he simply be hung for treason?
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A simple well-tested answer to anti-Americans like yourself is thus: whatever wrong you can accuse the US of doing within the last 100 years, Russia (or China) has done on wider and deeper scale in the last 50.
This justifies my sense of moral superiority. We aren't perfect, but we are far better than Russia.
That's because the participants of "pro-Russian backlash" are guided by Russians (not merely Psy-Ops, but actual fighting men acting as force-multipliers). But, of course, a Russian would deny it — or demand indisputable proof.
But what can not be denied, is that these people are carrying Russian flags — and replace Ukrainian flags with them, whenever they capture a government building. That alone is treason. Considering, that Russia is not merely a powerful foreign country vying for influence, but an enemy of Ukraine (which it obviously is since February 27, when Russian military invaded Crimea), this particular treason is most heinous. Its goal is not to change the general direction of Ukraine's foreign policy, they endanger territorial integrity and even the entire sovereignty of their country. There are no excuses for that.
It may have been so before February 27. Since then it is perfectly clear-cut. Russia is an invader, Ukrainians openly taking its side are traitors/collaborators, and attempts (such as yours) to paint it as "well, its complicated" are nothing but propaganda-cover for Kremlin.
No, it is not possible. The pro-Russia uprising is most definitely orchestrated by Russian military. Ukraine's intelligence has arrested some such Russian servicemen — though clearly, not enough.
The pro-Russian uprising is, as I said, not merely "influenced" but created by Russia. It is possible, that the anti-Yanukovich revolt was so influenced, but it is unlikely — considering how unprepared "the suspects" turned out to be. Yet, even if it were directly managed by the US-embassy — as viewers of Kremlin-TV are being led to believe — that's not an equivalent to what Russia is doing and seeking to do. US is not trying to annex Ukraine or any part thereof — the last time US annexed anyone was in 19th century. Putin, on the other hand, seeks to rebuild as much of the USSR as he can — his Russia today is an enemy.
It is not. It may be for us, but today's Russians — after over a decade of Putin's propaganda efforts — are aching for a revanche. Drunk on the easy success of annexation of Crimea from defenseless Ukraine (approved by nearly 80% of the Russians — I doubt, US had this kind of unity since WW2), they are already joking that Alaska is called "Ice-Crimea". Compared to an average Russian, Putin today is a moderate.
Do not be fooled — if you knew Russian and read their popular web-sites, you'd know... Without that capability to check for yourself, believe me.
That idea is very worrying — because it is about two competitors merging. However, with both of them being very-very cozy with the governing party, the merger is all but decided, unfortunately.
That's a lot, but less than the other combo and, more importantly, TV is not primary line of business for AT&T...
That said, with Internet-speeds continuing to rise — net-neutrality or not — it will only become easier to deliver content over it. Netflix may have made a special deal with Verizon, but smaller IPTV providers (like KartinaTV used by my relatives to watch channels from the former USSR and Israel) are doing just fine without any special arrangements.
And the perforated tape — don't forget the gorgeous sexy nothings, that can be mode from that...
What about doctors, who perform/take part in:
Unlike mathematicians, who are subject only to the secular laws, doctors are governed by medical boards and other certification bodies with professional ethics — a term sufficiently vague to drive a truck through — being among requirements.
If a non-profit CEO can be illegally fired over a $1000 donation to a cause, should not doctors participating in activities, that enough noisy people find objectionable, be permanently black-listed?
That's an idea, though... Why not black-list these mathematicians — to ensure, they can never find employment outside of government? What can possibly go wrong?
I suspect, it is the anonymity, that they wish to defeat — to be able to track users and sell the information.
That may be only a secondary concern.
Awesome! Is that really, what they teach in Business Management? Are you sure, you didn't attend a "School of Government" instead?
Moreover, if you had a particular knock for designing, you'd be able to find a manufacturer to implement your designs and sell them. A reasonably free Capitalist country is very conductive to just this sort of activity...
This may still be true today, but consider the possibilities of the future: no need to pay and wait for delivery, no gas is burned to deliver your part. The hale and healthy men and women doing the deliveries can instead do something more useful, and the roads have fewer trucks on them. By downloading somebody else's design and printing it locally, you get your part within an hour or two — and for much less.
Because governments — both local and federal — make it too hard for meaningful competition to arise. Some of the hurdles come from well-intentioned regulations and laws, others — from corrupt practices of rent-seeking politicians. But the result is the same, one needs to be Google-sized giant to enter into a telecom business today, whereas a hundred years ago there were competing phone companies — even running wires parallel to each other.
Whereas we both agree on what we don't want, it seems, we are at odds on how to achieve that. You'd rather outlaw the things you don't like, whereas I'd like healthy competition to sort things out.
Lost me here. What are you talking about?
Logos have little-to-nothing to do with Digital Rights Management. Your ability to modify a purchased (or freely downloaded) design should be out of the scope of this discussion.
The DRM I was talking about would've prevented a customer from 3D-printing more items of a particular design, than the designer's license allowed. Like you, I would not want a printer, that was designed to reject otherwise perfectly fine consumables because they were supplied by a competitor. I make a point of defeating such designs in my own "2D" printer today just to spite its manufacturer.
Yes, I would find that offensive too. Competition, however, would never allow that to happen.
Chile, where we succeeded, is Latin America's top economy — now and for the last twenty years or more. Cuba, where we failed, is a shithole. As is Venezuela, where we decided not to bother...
This is true, unfortunately. And most of the idiots are wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt.
What if they miss the aim one day by half a degree — the beam hits outside of whatever is supposed to process it dirtside? What will the effect be — and how far away must that island be located for reasonable level of safety?
You are quite right. And yet, I can't shake the feeling of respect for them — they are doing a much better job collecting and using the data, than the government agencies do. Surely, Department of Energy (for just one example) would love to have such details of our energy use. But they can not and — run by bureaucrats and politicians, rather than profit-motivated free people — will never able to.
Intelligent energy-use would be very helpful in reducing costs, waste and pollution. Somebody should be collecting this information. Given a choice between a government agency and a corporation, I'll always choose the latter:
. And so on. You've heard it before. This is just another example...
That's true for the actual designers, which, I'm sad to admit, I am not. I foresee myself buying other people's designs to "print" locally — instead of waiting for the Chinese manufacturers to buy (or steal) the designs, then implementing them and shipping the results to me...
I dunno. Speed would not be high on my list of priorities. My dishwasher takes over 2 hours to wash the load, and that's acceptable. The reliability — which you mention second — is much more important in my opinion.
And then comes the standardization of the data-files and of the raw materials.
I would not mind paying a designer of a printable widget for his work — so a DRM of some kind would be alright, even if irritating. Because I'd still be able to have the piece in a couple of hours after buying it, instead of waiting at least a day for the (expensive) overnight shipping.
That is true about American populace, but demonstrably false about the Russian. After their blitz-krieg in Crimea, Russians are drunk on power — not only threatening the rest of Ukraine, but referring to Alaska as "Ice-Crimea".
You would not know it from English-language Russian media, but, much like Arabs' real attitude towards Jews can only be grasped from reading Arab-language sites, anyone capable of reading Russian (like myself) should have no doubts about revanchism of Russia's populace. Believe it or not, Putin seems moderate compared to his nation's prevailing mood today.
Same reason people think, they are entitled to the same price for a more complex product.
Khm, I wonder, why they don't think so... Oh, wait:
So, some journalist thinks, it is beneficial, while the supposed beneficiaries themselves fear, that it is threatening.
Of course, the journalist must be right, and the people, whose livelihood and savings depend on it are all wrong!.. Who could possibly argue?
Yes, governmental and civilian are different things. However, intercepting diplomatic communications is just as (if not more) against the law as intercepting communications by your citizenry. In other words, interception of Zimmerman's telegram was just as (or more) wrong/illegal/unethical as intercepting a private citizen's phone call would've been.
Does not make any difference — Bletchley Park were listening to everything they could get. As does NSA today... That the NSA is able to get more data — thanks to the better technology available — does not, in itself, make it unethical or even illegal.
Oh, so if Congress voted to declare war on Al Qaeda after 9/11/2001, you would've had no objections to NSA's massive data-gathering? Of course, you still would have had. As would I. Hence my comment about "distinction without difference"...
NSA's surveillance has not — as of today — harmed an innocent American. It has a scary potential to become a dangerous tool in the hands of a totalitarian-minded executive by arming him with information about opposition, that he really ought not have.
There, you said it. Diplomatic channels ought to be sacred — much as (if not more!) so than the channels used by private citizens.
All radio-traffic had to be listened to in order to find enemy's messages. Much like the Internet-traffic today needs to be sifted through...
We are at war with terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda and other non-governmental groups today. In addition, we remain subject to espionage efforts by various other countries. Consider, for just one example, the work Russia's subversives are doing to start a civil war in Ukraine today — to justify their invasion and annexation of the country. Can't a similar method be used in Southern California, Arizona, and Texas? Shouldn't a country's intelligence be working on preventing such things?
Distinction without difference. When elite troops without insignia, but with very modern weapons (and Russian accents) occupy government buildings in Alaska (which Russians already refer to as "Ice-Crimea") to oversee a "referendum" on separating from US and joining Russia, they will do so without a formal declaration of war either.
Bletchley Park was listening on as much radio traffic as they could — trying to find the enemy's messages in it.
That's no different from NSA listening to as much Internet-traffic today. In both cases they don't consider themselves bound by limits of men-created laws — only technical difficulties, which ought to be overcome.
Perhaps, that's a wrong attitude, but exposing your side's capabilities to the enemies is not how one goes about correcting it.
No, not if the exposing weakens your side and strengthens the enemy(ies).
If you don't think, Russia is an enemy, then you have not been paying attention. You may not have anything against them, but they are sore and butthurt at the West and anxious for a revanche.
The analogy was nowhere near as tortured, as your pathetic attempt at sarcasm... Back to the point.
First, a bit of education: The Enigma machines were used by the Germans to communicate — Bletchley Park were intercepting all radio traffic they could intercept looking for encrypted messages by the Germans.
That such intercepts covered mostly the military (rather than "millions of civilians") was simply because no one else has used radio at the time — not because the laws were better at the time, or people were better at following them.
Today's data-collection by the NSA is no different in principle from Bletchley Park's attempts to listen on as much radio traffic as they could. Their limits back then were purely technical — not legal or ethical.
Bletchley Park-associated radio-operators were listening to everything they could listen to — that it did not cover every British (or American) citizen at the time is not because they had some overriding scruples, but is explained by the two simple facts:
Today everyone — friends and foes alike — do have and use various means of communications (Internet, SMS, analog and digital voice calls, etc.) and so, naturally, NSA are working on capabilities to intercept all of that. Just as Bletchley Park would have, had the technology been there at the time.
Now, possibly, the diminishment of citizens' privacy ought to outweigh the risk of those same citizens being struck by a new non-governmental terrorist group or the good old spying by a foreign government. We need to be talking about it — Congressional hearings did reveal NSA overstepping its mandate and, in any case, no one is quite clear, what the mandate is.
But to simply take it all and bring it over to Russians of all people — the resurging enemy with revanchist ambitions — is a crime.
Imagine for a minute, an associate of Alan Turing escaping Bletchely Park in 1944 with files recording the facility's activity — and with details of its capability to decrypt Enigma traffic.
He is outraged about the government's attempts — often successful — to intercept other people messages (some intercepts leading to deaths of hundreds) and is smart enough to envision the future, where such ungentlemanly conduct will become common place. And so he goes public with the materials he took with him, holding a press-conference somewhere — say, in Switzerland.
Because none of the UK allies will have him, and he fears the Allies' long hand in neutral Switzerland, he takes refuge in Germany, where he is promptly drained of all the information he carries (in files and head)? Germans modify their encryption practices and Bletchley Park is no longer able to decode the communications.
Should the man's life not be hell after that? Or should he simply be hung for treason?