Re: Obviously still sore...
Interesting that The Register comments have become a target for pro nsa types.... It is all too obvious chaps...do piss off and play elsewhere...
I'm unashamedly pro NSA, DoD, CIA, MIx etc They have done a great many positive things (you're reading this on one of them) and have much to offer in future. Even the best of the best make mistakes and get things wrong. In this case, quite possibly very wrong. That, however, doesn't mean they got the Snowden thing right, and it doesn't excuse the apparent reluctance to learn from it.
It is all too obvious chaps...do piss off and play elsewhere...
It's supposed to be obvious. Did you imagine people would be universally anti-agency? Really? Nobody is disputing that lessons should be learned and a direction change may be needed, but that doesn't mean the world would be better without the intelligence agencies.
I was going to suggest that I presume you'll change username when you grow up in order to distance yourself from the digital record of your petulent childhood, but much like you that would have been playing the man not the ball, and that rarely enhances credibility.
Unless of course you actually own the The Register or indeed the internet?