> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mark McCarron <mark.mccar...@live.co.uk> > Date: Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:27 AM > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Questions about NSA monitoring of Tor users. > To: "tor-talk@lists.torproject.org" <tor-talk@lists.torproject.org> > > > 2. Tor is a communications platform, the NSA's job is to monitor > communications and intercept military planning that effects either > itself or its partners. ... Leaving blind spots would be > dangerous to national security as it provides opportunities for > planning and coordination. So, there is a legitimate case here and no > one denies it. >
i agree with your analysis of NSA's job, but not with your statement that no one denies that its job is legitimate. on the contrary, while both Snowden and Greenwald, if read carefully, agree with you (at least mostly), virtually everyone who comments on the Snowden materials, including some very prominent journalists & bloggers, hackers & activists & technologists, and many others, strike me as absolutely denying that there is any legitimate case for not leaving blind spots. i suspect many on this list deny it too, though I wouldn't pretend to speak for them. i wish what you said were true, but I see much evidence to the contrary: in fact, I sometimes think that this is the point. > Did no one notice trillions are being drained from the US economy > into some unidentified military project for the last decade or more??? > > It would seem to indicate that there is a Manhatten-style project underway. > > do you have any links or additional info about this? beyond the vague sense of large black budgets, I'm not sure exactly what you might be referring to. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
