Japan has refused to spy on Internet traffic for the NSA, offering the amazing excuse that it would be unconstitutional for them to do so.
According to Snowden-sourced documents passed to The Guardian, the NSA tried to get Japan to help it tap all transpacific traffic passing though Japanese tubes with the hopes of seeing what the sneaky Chinese were up to.
Unlike their spineless UK lapdogs, the USA’s demands that Japan assist its indiscriminate spying operations by tapping undersea data cables were apparently rejected, on the astonishing and by American standards rather quaint grounds that it would be a violation of the Japanese constitution to do so.
The scale of the proposed operation was also apparently so large that Japan’s comparatively sensibly sized spy agencies would be unable to manage it without private sector assistance, further discouraging them.
Whatever the actual reason – some have also suggested fears about letting a rampant US spy agency hand over choice Japanese trade secrets to US companies might have had something to do with it – the news has surprised many who thought Japan to be amongst the most supine of the US “allies.”
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Haha good to see the Japanese is still doing the backroom deals so well.
Just like before WW2, the Japanese was forced to open their ports and sign all the international treaties with US and European countries. And BOOOM the Japanese started invading China.
They are so good at being sneaky ninja.
I guess this explains how Microsoft lost the next gen console technology competition. NSA couldn't deliver them PS4's planned specs.
+1 QFT
Hahahahhaha that's brilliant Kaarme
And yet some fans keep saying that people thinking the government is spying via Kinetic is paranoid.. Open your eyes, people.
Its is funckin obvious alright.
The always online plan was half ass (racing with others avatar or real time progressing world, which neither really require always online machine to work) and the cloud service was never proven to succeed..
This is the real reason why Kinetic is to be on your living room, for sake of data mining and monitoring the citizen.
What's the real reason you can't spell Kinect?
prob true!
Right on
Good, they shouldn't spy on citizens.
Damn backstabbers if you ask me, and after all we've done for them. Makes me sad. As my CIA grandpappy always said, "When they find us lookin', it's time for a nukin'."
Go back to your cave you troll.
It's unconstitutional here, too. Unfortunately, the present regime doesn't have a lot of respect for the Constitution.
Hell, in a lot of countries according to the law it's illegal. Not that brownnosing politicians ever let themselves get stopped by that.
It's not like the previous regimes were any better. Neither the blue nor the red gangsters seem to remember the oath they swore to uphold the constitution, some of them probably didn't even bother reading it in the first place.
Politics... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXpdJLJqG9U
I know how japanese visited my sisters school and stole the ideas of students shure they don't want to give away their secrets.
I didn't know Sankaku is into politics.
Then you must be new here.
Why not those fuck8ng keep hacking and copying every product secret they ever find. I say spy on Chinese.
Did you even read the article? Japan refused because of the massive breach of privacy against its own citizens and companies such an action would entail, among other things.
And copy their...copies? Then they spy you and copy your copies of their copies. And then you copy their copies of your copies that are actually copies of their copies.
Copyception...
Wow that's the first time I've heard of them doing something right in a long while.
"You may tame a dog with food, you may bribe a man with money but you will never buy Japan."
Unless it's the new remote controlled Tonka truck, and a korean is forced to watch me drive it around the parking lot.
i laughed quite loudly after reading this
Hahahahahahaha
We bought it easy enough with economic support after ww2.
Typical jap. All mouth when going's good and on ALL FOURS when the chips are down.
Spread that leg more, this time it's Koreans and Chinese who's gonna rape your girls!
Are you retarded?
Hopefully but they did this in public who knows what they may have said behind closed doors.
this IS what happened behind closed doors. this information comes by way of leaked classified information
PROOF or it's ishihara droppings
Undersea cables... I wonder where they are... If I could cut them, will you shitty humans start mass suicide?
Rage against West. But don't worry, Your gov spies on you always, every day, jerking off on everything you do, getting the best sluts and deals before you. This is what's it all about; getting drunk with power and abusing it for yer own good. Human. Define human. Accept the truth and start killing each other.
First kill yourself, then we might think about it.
And you aren't human, idiot? Oh, I forgot: you're no human, you're a troll ...
Jappy jap getting mouthy. Time for rapey :)
Or we could, you know, wait about 100ms until the routing algorithms completely invalidate your attempt at sabotaging the Internet.
These cables regularly do get cut, usually by accident. It doesn't do much.
It would be funny if in fact Japanese declined only because they've built their Chinese spying network. By themselves and long time ago :)
Nah, just a publicity stunt. Give 5-10 years, and it'll come out that Japan actually said yes because they fear any other culture "intruding" on theirs.
A public stunt done in private conversations with the NSA? Crafty.
You did a good very good thing Japan.
Thank god at least one first world government hasn't completely lost it's mind.
Weaboo cunt detected.
They lost their minds years ago when they were gangraped by the rest of the world for getting mouthy.
Now it's just a sniveling piece of meat :)
Have you read half of the articles and 70% of the comments on here? Comment fail.
NSA GOT TOLD!
LOL u wish.
More likely NSA and NRO just found another way to perform their tasks. If we can infiltrate and hack russian and chinese sources, jap chumps are nothing.
This is more or less the case of 'let's ask nicely first so we can preserve the idea of partnership - because it's more efficient than doing this the round about way by forcing our way through'.
My guess is, these japs are taking it up the ass while thinking they scored political and 'backbone' points by this 'courageous' act.
BTW, what the fuck is wrong with all you naive fucks who think a decent sized government isn't capable of doing this? Even a mid sized iran can do this to their own citizens. Electronic and web communications are incredibly fragile and easy to intercept. Those who can only provide these technologies are the same ones who can break into them on such a wide scale in the first place.
If I was running a government, tapping into the potential of this kind of program is the first thing I would be doing. The only 'fault' at this point is that the program got blown. But the fact that major intelligence and signals agencies are monitoring private and public communications traffic in order to complete their objectives is a common sense issue.
Chill the fuck out - you are not as important as you think to national security. World doesn't revolve around your 'catastrophe'.
These people have a job to do and the only fault is that they were too incompetent to keep it from going public.
TDLR; LOL @ all the fucks who think American Agencies didn't know what they were doing. All events serve to further our agenda!
You really are a dumb shit, aren't you?
Everybody knows that it's relatively easy for a government to spy on other governments, but this right here is more about japan actually being the first country to take a stand, telling uncle sam that he can take that espionage proposal, dip it in glue, roll it in caltrops and wasabi, and ram it up his own arse.
Hopefully other countries will follow suit, eventually crippling the american spy network.
I rally hope that's the case. Britain was manipulated, followed by Australia, and I hope no more idiots,top in their respective country giving their own citizen's privacy to others.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA keep talking bitch!
Let japs keep moaning about 'taking a stand'. Sure, a bitch boyfriend can 'take a stand' with his mouth while his girlfriend is getting fucked in front of his face. If you qualify that as 'courage', you know nothing about what it takes to actually get things done on the international scale.
Nothing I said is remotely off the mark. If reality ain't easy for you to swallow, I suggest keeping your mouth shut in the first place.
What, you think this shit is a school yard brawl?
Damn yeah! Kick the filthy foreigners out of Japan!
lol bitch/
Operation Tomodachi, nuff said.
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HA!