Friday, June 30, 2017
Kudos to Reuters
Item in Reuters:
Despite hacking charges, U.S. tech industry fought to keep ties to Russia spy service As U.S. officials investigated in January the FSB's alleged role in election cyber attacks, U.S. technology firms were quietly lobbying the government to soften a ban on dealing with the Russian spy agency, people with direct knowledge of the effort told Reuters. New U.S. sanctions put in place by former President Barack Obama last December - part of a broad suite of actions taken in response to Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election - had made it a crime for American companies to have any business relationship with the FSB, or Federal Security Service. But the sanctions also threatened to imperil the Russian sales operations of Western tech companies. Under a little-understood arrangement, the FSB doubles as a regulator charged with approving the import to Russia of almost all technology that contains encryption, which is used in both sophisticated hardware as well as products like cellphones and laptops.First thought: TORTURE THEM FOR A TRILLION YEARS AND THEN SHOOT THEM A QUADRILLION TIMES. NO, SKIP THE TORTURE. JUST SHOOT. Second thought: Wait. Before starting the torture, I need to PRAISE Reuters for doing real journalism, REPORTING the infinite omnicidal evil and phrasing the text and headline to EMPHASIZE the massive infinite evil. Note especially the alleged hacking and accused meddling, in sharp contrast to all other media treating the nonexistent "meddling" and "hacking" as a fact of Nature requiring no proof. ¶ 5:19 AM
