Petter Reinholdtsen

Of course USA loses in cyber war - NSA and friends made sure it would happen
19th December 2014

So, Sony caved in (according to Rob Lowe) and demonstrated that America lost its first cyberwar (according to Newt Gingrich). It should not surprise anyone, after the whistle blower Edward Snowden documented that the government of USA 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.

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.

There is a reason why China and others are trying to move away from Windows to Linux and other alternatives, and it is not to avoid sending its hard earned dollars to Cayman Islands (or whatever tax haven Microsoft is using these days to collect the majority of its income. :)

Tags: english, personvern, surveillance.

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