> it basically means that the NSA
is in a position to blackmail any citizen of any country
that enters into a position of power in that country.
Tactical creeping barrages and strategic `ground-zero megaton' leaked bombshells: upon corporate competitive peers, to foreign and domestic press, other rivals, without attribution who leaked it, where false flag ops becomes trivial with no attribution. This is very dangerous allowing invisibly owning anyone of sufficient value or manipulative interest.
Imagine the chaos if rival states all had NSA's panopticon power and were determined to use it.
Tactical creeping barrages and strategic `ground-zero megaton' leaked bombshells: upon corporate competitive peers, to foreign and domestic press, other rivals, without attribution who leaked it, where false flag ops becomes trivial with no attribution. This is very dangerous allowing invisibly owning anyone of sufficient value or manipulative interest.
Imagine the chaos if rival states all had NSA's panopticon power and were determined to use it.