• Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
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[quote]Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden GCHQ expected to 'pull its weight' for Americans Weaker regulation of British spies 'a selling point' for NSA The US government has paid at least £100m to the UK spy agency GCHQ over the last three years to secure access to and influence over Britain's intelligence gathering programmes. The top secret payments are set out in documents which make clear that the Americans expect a return on the investment, and that GCHQ has to work hard to meet their demands. "GCHQ must pull its weight and be seen to pull its weight," a GCHQ strategy briefing said. Snowden warned about the relationship between the NSA and GCHQ, saying the organisations have been jointly responsible for developing techniques that allow the mass harvesting and analysis of internet traffic. "It's not just a US problem," he said. "They are worse than the US." As well as the payments, the documents seen by the Guardian reveal: • GCHQ is pouring money into efforts to gather personal information from mobile phones and apps, and has said it wants to be able to "exploit any phone, anywhere, any time". The NSA also paid £15.5m towards redevelopments at GCHQ's sister site in Bude, north Cornwall, which intercepts communications from the transatlantic cables that carry internet traffic. "Securing external NSA funding for Bude has protected (GCHQ's core) budget," the paper said. GCHQ said that by 2013 it hoped to have "exploited to the full our unique selling points of geography, partnerships [and] the UK's legal regime".[/quote] [URL]http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gchq-spying-edward-snowden[/URL]
So when exactly will this all finally pinnacle into some sort of explosive data breach or civil unrest? 15 years? 20?
I must admit I'm a little flattered that the NSA is investing so much money to spy on little old me~
[QUOTE=MIPS;41678480]So when exactly will this all finally pinnacle into some sort of explosive data breach or civil unrest? 15 years? 20?[/QUOTE] i doubt we'll see anything happen until we have the equivalent of hitler youths reporting moderate republicans for not being patriotic enough (mishandling a flag or some gay shart) and moderate democrats for not doing their mandatory community service with a smile
And the 62 million other people that hang around here I guess [editline]my automerge was assassinated by the nsa[/editline] my automerge was assassinated by the nsa
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;41678729]And the 62 million other people that hang around here I guess [editline]my automerge was assassinated by the nsa[/editline] my automerge was assassinated by the nsa[/QUOTE] I guess that means they spend about two pounds on you.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;41678720]I must admit I'm a little flattered that the NSA is investing so much money to spy on little old me~[/QUOTE] I'm a little disappointed this money is being handed out to a foreign intelligence agency, even one as close as the UK's
[QUOTE=Riller;41678738]I guess that means they spend about two pounds on you.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=scout1;41678749]I'm a little disappointed this money is being handed out to a foreign intelligence agency, even one as close as the UK's[/QUOTE] I'm a little offended that I'm being sold out to the US for two and a half dollars (give or take)
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;41678752]I'm a little offended that I'm being sold out to the US for five dollars.[/QUOTE] Would you prefer if we paid 6 for the rights to your anus
hey how about we put 100m into education and health care pls
[QUOTE=scout1;41678783]Would you prefer if we paid 6 for the rights to your anus[/QUOTE] I get the feeling if I refuse then you'll annex my house in a peacekeeping operation and take it by force :( [editline]2nd August 2013[/editline] I do not want my butt to be a victim of the war on terror
Typical socialist Europeans wanting handouts because they're too lazy to fund their own spying agencies.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;41678798]I get the feeling if I refuse then you'll annex my house in a peacekeeping operation and take it by force :([/QUOTE] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DWgyFAbNQsI&t=60]This isn't a negotiaton![/url] But really, it seems the UK is amicable with this arrangement. You should probably talk to your elected leaders about that.
kind of fucked up they want personal information from their own citizens phones. What would they want this information for?
they really don't know when to accept that they've lost a battle do they
[QUOTE=ridinmybike;41678841]kind of fucked up they want personal information from their own citizens phones. What would they want this information for?[/QUOTE] Knowledge is Power.
Blackmail is also a side effect of this kind of information access capability. Government is bought and payed for, be it by bribery, blackmail, or intimidation.
[QUOTE=MIPS;41678480]So when exactly will this all finally pinnacle into some sort of explosive data breach or civil unrest? 15 years? 20?[/QUOTE] If you try to stand up to the government peacefully? They don't care, I've been at a protest against the NSA, people came up and called us jobless hippies and conspiracy morons. Violent protests? You wont get support, and you'll get labeled as a terrorist, stuck in Gitmo your whole life. Try to organize a large scale civil unrest? They'll see it online, once again, you'll get arrested and stuck in Gitmo.
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