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The Griffin -team is looking for your ideas and comments. Join and show your support for Griffin.  Wiretap hacksThe telecommunication infrastructure is built with systems to facilitate easy wiretapping (see the CALEA law in the US, and similar ones in other jurisdictions). An enterprising adversary could get hold of those, and use social engineering or tricking the machines for getting access to the facilities. In many cases the governments themselves are clueless about the systems they are using; see the new example from Netherlands:
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Usually even more. Corporations at least have competitors that will eat their lunch if they will be significantly dumber than them. The government-industrial complex as a whole has much fewer such built-in checks. There's a reason why "good enough for government work" now means a fairly poor rating.
I always wondered why people need a proficiency exam for driving a car or welding or professionally doing electrical wiring but there are no such exams for doing politics, where the potential damages are orders of magnitude higher. Why should designing a bridge come with much higher personal responsibility for an engineer than designing a law for a politician? Isn't it a bit unfair?
Yes, governments are typically just as clueless as your average corporation, many times even more so.
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