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Russia: Just yesterday the head of the NSA says he has not been told to try to shutdown future Russian hacking.
I have not read any of the comments in this thread, and do not have time to. Just wanted to make a comment about the "Hacking" mentioned in the OP.
For the NSA to tell Russia to stop hacking would be like Fatty Felton telling others to stop eating donuts while he is standing in front of the Voodoo bakery with half eaten donuts in each hand.
If lists are made of the the countries that do the most hacking, and which countries were the first to hack other countries. The USA would be near the top of both lists, if not #1 on both.
The USA intelligence agencies have used the war on terrorism to hack into many countries computers. If you want to talk about mining info by hacking into cell phones, the USA does more than all the other counties combined.[/QUOTE]
Well, I guess thats what happens when you comment on something without admittedly reading it.
No one suggested that "the NSA should tell Russia to stop hacking." No duh that would be silly, and no duh, we do it too.
What I said was that the head of the NSA testified that he has not been told by the president to beef up our cyberdefenses to make sure they aren't successful a second time, and that the president refuses to implement the sanctions against Russia passed by both houses.
Defend that.