>>>http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220
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>>>Yet another reason why IMO the Snowden affair was by far the most important story in IT this year.
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>>I do hope that someone sues the pants off them - in my eyes taking such a large sum for arguing to use unsafe tables is fraud.
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>What about NSA ? What they do is legal ?
>(Attn NSA: We would not normally talk behind your back, but we all know you are listening! {g} )

guess so - they put enough pressure to create laws that make their behaviour legal. At least catching data offshore will probably be against no specificlaw as well. Weasel clauses against getting data from US citizens into their bases seem to be in place. But for me there is a distinct difference between legal and physical laws - for others legal a touch of sacrosanct and a place in some god-ordained picture ;-)