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  5. NSA & Microsoft Working Together

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    As the second comment posted underneath said, this is news?

    Intelligence agencies are not very effective if they can't gather intelligence. Nor are they going to just sit there and wait for the intelligence to fall into laps, that causes some major lapses in security. Not to sound like a paranoid black-copters-on-the-horizon type, but if this is the lowest extent of collaboration (the article claimed it was so that the NSA could vet the OS security and compatibility. Which means their programmers went through, found all the bugs, pointed some of the more obvious ones out to Microsoft, and plotted exploits for the rest) then I would be surprised.

    The government is a large body of able and unable bodied people, which has three major concerns as far as I can tell. Staying in power, whic requires satisfying the needs/wants of the populace as best as possible, including security. Making sure there is a country for which they have power over. Which is pretty much the same as number one, but on the foreign scale. Finally, there is the requiremnt to do the multiple jobs tasked to them, which seem to change daily.

    So the governing powers react thus. When it comes to things we know we will get away with, we shall tell , them. When it comes to the things we don't need to worry about them finding out, we will tell them. When it comes to things we have to tell them (the media has probably leaked more information on Iraq strategy and troop movements then has ever been leaked in any series of previous wars. If any of the WWII commanders, on either side for that matter, had to deal with modern media, they'd throw a fit.) we will tell them. And finally, when it comes to the things they dont/wont tell us merely pray like hell we never find out. If that means that they have to step on a few so called personal liberities or rights, then they probably will, and so what? If some one reads my steamy love letters, I just hope he's got the room to himself!

    Thr first right granted by the constitution is not the right to free speech. That was the First Amendmant in the Bill of Rights, which was added as an afterthought. The first right granted by the constitution is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Ok, there's another rant in there, but for now, let us accept that in order to guarentee that first key right, that there must be system in place for some one to defend it, and that in order to defend it they must be as prepared as possible to defend it. That means giving them all the information they could want in regards to that pursuit of defense. Heinlein once said that a state could either enjoy security or total liberty, but a state that had both was so rare to be as if it did not exist. Well, I believe that as well, though probably wouldn't have been able to phrase it was succinctly.

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