“While China is usually being blamed for cyber attacks and snooping on its citizens, this is a fact of life in almost all countries across the globe. But what was striking about the PRISM operation was the expanse. Their activity was pan-globe, and therefore, huge data was being hacked into, intercepted and assessed,” the official said. Asked why no steps were being taken to counter the US surveillance, the official said it was essentially a trade-off between using a free and stable e-mail and social media system and loss of a certain amount of privacy. “Where was the alternative? Are we capable of providing a robust mechanism such as Gmail that too for free?”
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:08:21 +0000
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