-Title: Of course USA looses in cyber war - NSA and friends made sure it would happen
+Title: Of course USA loses in cyber war - NSA and friends made sure it would happen
Tags: english, surveillance, personvern
Date: 2014-12-19 13:10
<p>So, Sony caved in
(<a href="https://twitter.com/RobLowe/status/545338568512917504">according
to Rob Lowe</a>) and demonstrated that America lost its first cyberwar
-(<a href="https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/545339074975109122">According
-to Newt Gingrich</a>). It should not surprise anyone, when the
+(<a href="https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/545339074975109122">according
+to Newt Gingrich</a>). It should not surprise anyone, after the
whistle blower Edward Snowden documented that the government of USA
-for many years have done their best to make sure the technology used
-by its citizens is filled with security holes allowing the secret
-services to spy on its own population. No one in their right minds
-could believe that the ability to snoop on the people all over the
-globe only could be used by the personnel authorized to do so by the
-president of the United States of America. If the capabilities are
-there, it will be used by friend and foe alike, and now it has been
-used to bring Sony on its knees.</p>
+and their allies for many years have done their best to make sure the
+technology used by its citizens is filled with security holes allowing
+the secret services to spy on its own population. No one in their
+right minds could believe that the ability to snoop on the people all
+over the globe could only be used by the personnel authorized to do so
+by the president of the United States of America. If the capabilities
+are there, they will be used by friend and foe alike, and now they are
+being used to bring Sony on its knees.</p>
-<p>I doubt it will a lesson learned, and expect USA to loose its next
+<p>I doubt it will a lesson learned, and expect USA to lose its next
cyber war too, given how eager the western intelligence communities
(and probably the non-western too, but it is less in the news) seem to
be to continue its current dragnet surveillance practice.</p>