It’s No Secret 0
In Der Spiegel, Christian Stöcker comments on the surveillance state. It’s a subject that Germany and Germans are particularly sensitive to, because Germany and Germans have lived it.
A nugget–follow the link for the rest (caveat: they fell into the trap that others have of confusing SFTP with “direct access,” but, from a policy standpoint, that’s pretty much irrelevant):
That was precisely the goal, according to the head of the NSA, Lieutenant General Keith Alexander. “Why can’t we collect all the signals all the time?” he asked in an internal document acquired by the Guardian. “Sounds like a good summer project for Menwith,” he continued, referring to a GCHQ facility at Menwith Hill in northern England.
I have a thought: Substitute “Russian” and “Chinese” for “American” and “British” wherever those words appear in the article and imagine the uproar that would be coming from Washington over this.
