Brasil Goes Nuts Over Canadian Spies

Spade

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Spy agency CSEC needs MPs' oversight, ex-director says - Politics - CBC News
From the article:
All of which helps to explain Adams’s warning for average Canadians: if you think anything you read, write or send via the internet is private, think again.
"The reality is if you're on the internet, you literally might as well be on the front page of the Globe and Mail," Adams says.
“You have to know that probably if someone’s interested in you, they may well be listening or reading or whatever it might be.”
Don’t count on passwords for protection, either.
“If you use a word that’s in the dictionary, they’ll crack it in less than a minute.”
 

Cliffy

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Spy agency CSEC needs MPs' oversight, ex-director says - Politics - CBC News
From the article:
All of which helps to explain Adams’s warning for average Canadians: if you think anything you read, write or send via the internet is private, think again.
"The reality is if you're on the internet, you literally might as well be on the front page of the Globe and Mail," Adams says.
“You have to know that probably if someone’s interested in you, they may well be listening or reading or whatever it might be.”
Don’t count on passwords for protection, either.
“If you use a word that’s in the dictionary, they’ll crack it in less than a minute.”
Fear is a wonderful tool. Problem is, they have no idea what to do about those who do not succumb to it. All those spooky dudes and dudettes deal in fear because that is all they know. They are like psychic vampires and my teacher taught me how to be psychic garlic.
Or as a woman once said, "the fastest way to get rid of an unwanted erection is to laugh at it."
 

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Spy agency CSEC needs MPs' oversight, ex-director says - Politics - CBC News
From the article:
All of which helps to explain Adams’s warning for average Canadians: if you think anything you read, write or send via the internet is private, think again.
"The reality is if you're on the internet, you literally might as well be on the front page of the Globe and Mail," Adams says.
“You have to know that probably if someone’s interested in you, they may well be listening or reading or whatever it might be.”
Don’t count on passwords for protection, either.
“If you use a word that’s in the dictionary, they’ll crack it in less than a minute.”

When nothing is private truth will prevail.
 

L Gilbert

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Spies, from Canada? Impossible! We're too nice and too honest.
Aren't we?

Notice, that with the respect it is due, I spelt the country's name in Portugese.

Canadian mining companies in foreign countries are some of the worst environmental and human rights abusers out there. Wolves hiding in Canadian sheep's clothing.

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What? Canadian wolves are mining spies in Brazil while wearing clothes that sheep wear? Sounds like a cool satire on fantasy books.
Can't happen. Canada is transparent and all is above the table and there is no such thing as CSIS or CSEC.
 

Spade

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Just the Chinese do industrial espionage. We're pure as the driven snow.
Good night Cliffy.
Good night Les.
Good night CSEC and CSA

 

Machjo

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As far as I'm concerned, to spy on a coutnry is to declare political war against it. The fact that Canada is doing it makes it no better. In fact, in my mind it makes it worse since that reflects on me as a Canadian.
 

tober

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Canada-Brazil Spy Scandal

News says Canada has been caught spying on Brazil. Is this a scandal? Not IMO. Countries watch each other. Everybody has computers. Some Canadians got into Brazil's. Big deal. Everybody has anti-spyware too. Where was Brazil's? What did we find? I don't know? What did we want and why? In order to tell me the government would have to tell Brazil, and that might not be good for Canada. Why should I care if Brazil is whining?