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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Of course USA loses in cyber war - NSA and friends made sure it would happen</div>
  24       <div class="date">19th December 2014</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>So, Sony caved in
  26 (<a href="https://twitter.com/RobLowe/status/545338568512917504">according
  27 to Rob Lowe</a>) and demonstrated that America lost its first cyberwar
  28 (<a href="https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/545339074975109122">according
  29 to Newt Gingrich</a>).  It should not surprise anyone, after the
  30 whistle blower Edward Snowden documented that the government of USA
  31 and their allies for many years have done their best to make sure the
  32 technology used by its citizens is filled with security holes allowing
  33 the secret services to spy on its own population.  No one in their
  34 right minds could believe that the ability to snoop on the people all
  35 over the globe could only be used by the personnel authorized to do so
  36 by the president of the United States of America.  If the capabilities
  37 are there, they will be used by friend and foe alike, and now they are
  38 being used to bring Sony on its knees.</p>
  39
  40 <p>I doubt it will a lesson learned, and expect USA to lose its next
  41 cyber war too, given how eager the western intelligence communities
  42 (and probably the non-western too, but it is less in the news) seem to
  43 be to continue its current dragnet surveillance practice.</p>
  44
  45 <p>There is a reason why China and others are trying to move away from
  46 Windows to Linux and other alternatives, and it is not to avoid
  47 sending its hard earned dollars to Cayman Islands (or whatever
  48 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven">tax haven</a>
  49 Microsoft is using these days to collect the majority of its
  50 income. :)</p>
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