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Is anyone else more disturbed at the 4chan-esque style of the author, than the actual ramifications of the "presentation"?

It sounds like international security is being run by 10 year old wannabe anonymous members.

Do the NSA employees really watch presentations such as this?



It sounds like international security is being run by 10 year old wannabe anonymous members.

Yep. Replace "wannabe anonymous members" with "wannabe hardass" or "war hawk" and you have the essence of the US approach to international relations.

So while childish language for childish actions bothers me, so does the act of trying to class-up childish behavior with the well worn flavor of political rhetoric that acts like whatever bullshit getting peddled is reasonable and responsible.

I can't decide which I like less.


I feel like this is the geek version of some Michael Mann film, where the subtext is "COPS ARE JUST LIKE CRIMINALS." I'm already terrified that evidently any random GS-11 can grab SIGINT data at will; now I find out that they've got a red-black version of LiveJournal that reads like a Ritalin-addled script kiddie with SCI clearance. Fucking 'ell, no wonder we're fucked.


> Is anyone else more disturbed at the 4chan-esque style of the author, than the actual ramifications of the "presentation"?

Probably, but that sounds like a bad idea to me.




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