Glenn Greenwald's must-watch 30C3 keynote

[JDPriestly]

25. I dislike all hackers whether they be the NSA stealing information all over the world or

the commercial hackers who steal people's credit card information. I don't think that those who hack computers for personal profit are any worse than those who hack computers for the profits of big business, and that is what I think the NSA is doing. If the NSA was really just hacking computers to fight terrorists, they would not have such a huge enterprise. Both the NSA hackers and the hackers for personal profit are acting illegally in my view. I wish they would all stop. I wish the NSA would limit its hacking to terror suspects and would more clearly tell us how they define a terror suspect. All the definitions I have seen of "terrorists" are extremely vague and allow for a very subjective decision as to who is or is no a terrorist. Are the NRA crazies terrorists? Are the Occupy people terrorists? Making that decision requires a subjective political decision. So we get back to the question whether the hackers for the NSA are mostly very right-wing people or mostly very liberal people. Because their decisions about who they hack and hassle will depend on their personal political view.