BIRMINGHAM – If you are like me you completely discount official protests as posturing. In this age of suspicion of all politicians there is not much to be read into the President of Brazil, angry about spying, canceling a state visit to the United States, or the governments of Germany, Spain and France summoning their respective US Ambassadors.
What I look for are reactions from the security industry, the people who live and breathe security. Among those reactions are shock, betrayal, and yes, rage. It is not the rage of a bar fight, it is the slow steady boil of rage that comes from comprehension and careful consideration.
For some reason Congress and General Alexander, speaking for the NSA, apparently believe that capturing the emails, phone records, and conversations of ?non US persons? is completely justified, as if ?non-US persons? where somehow guilty by default. The comments on reddit and Ycombinator are getting more and more heated.
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