This ought to go over well:
The US National Security Agency (NSA) successfully cracked the encryption code protecting the United Nations’ internal videoconferencing system, according to documents seen by Germany’s Der Spiegel.The United States was not just busy spying on the European Union, the report revealed, but had its surveillance apparatus trained on the international body as well.
The publication reported on Sunday that the electronic breaching of the UN, which is headquartered in New York, occurred in the summer of 2012. Within three weeks of initially gaining access to the UN system, the NSA had increased the number of such decrypted communications from 12 to 458.
On one occasion, according to the report, while the Americans were attempting to break into UN communications, they discovered the Chinese were attempting to crack the encryption code as well.
Guess we can't blame this one on the loyal Bushies, now, can we. Of course the heathen Chinee could be expected to behave in this duplicitous and underhanded way since they are a secretive authoritarian nation where the interests of the corporation and the interests of the state are interdependent and inseparable while we, by contrast, are the, uh . . . the, uh . . . Greatest Nation Ever. But I'm still guessing our various Friends in Freedom aren't going to be real happy with us!
---Baron V
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