Let's assume that by some random craziness that they are telling the truth and it is legal to do this..
Just because it's legal doesn't make it right.
As time goes on I think we are finding both sides of both lines - the legality line and the morality (for lack of a better term) line.
There are things that fall on both sides of both lines. Sometimes just because it's illegal doesn't make it immoral and just because it is legal it doesn't make it moral.
The whole thing is that it tells you that the government doesn't always run things through their own personal sanity checks..
I lived in Korea for 3 years and not in the military. Yes, you are right. Not everywhere uses cards for everything. Most every transaction I did for that 3 years was done in cash. But, even in those countries, when was the last time you saw a person doing a transaction over say... $1000 (or equivilent) in cash? I'm guessing you would say, "Never." Large amounts of money are really hard to transfer in cash, not to mention I would think that the authorities would be fairly suspicious when you whipped out a large briefcase of money (all gun/drug dealer, mob, ransom movies aside).
My question is why would you ever need to get into the vault?
Really. Look at the world, almost nobody uses cash any more. There isn't a reason to. You swipe your card and the transaction is done. All it means is that - tap tap tap - a dozen key strokes later and you have a bunch of money transfered into an account of your liking.
Now whether you are smart enough to transfer it into the account of someone you don't like rather than your own is a different question.
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They already do. It's called STANAG.
Let's assume that by some random craziness that they are telling the truth and it is legal to do this..
Just because it's legal doesn't make it right.
As time goes on I think we are finding both sides of both lines - the legality line and the morality (for lack of a better term) line. There are things that fall on both sides of both lines. Sometimes just because it's illegal doesn't make it immoral and just because it is legal it doesn't make it moral.
The whole thing is that it tells you that the government doesn't always run things through their own personal sanity checks..
I lived in Korea for 3 years and not in the military. Yes, you are right. Not everywhere uses cards for everything. Most every transaction I did for that 3 years was done in cash. But, even in those countries, when was the last time you saw a person doing a transaction over say... $1000 (or equivilent) in cash? I'm guessing you would say, "Never." Large amounts of money are really hard to transfer in cash, not to mention I would think that the authorities would be fairly suspicious when you whipped out a large briefcase of money (all gun/drug dealer, mob, ransom movies aside).
My question is why would you ever need to get into the vault? Really. Look at the world, almost nobody uses cash any more. There isn't a reason to. You swipe your card and the transaction is done. All it means is that - tap tap tap - a dozen key strokes later and you have a bunch of money transfered into an account of your liking. Now whether you are smart enough to transfer it into the account of someone you don't like rather than your own is a different question.