[liberationtech] FW: NSA Admits: Okay, Okay, There Have Been A Bunch Of Intentional Abuses, Including Spying On Love Interests | Techdirt

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On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Matt Johnson <railmeat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tomasz, you seem to have a dark view of human nature.

some may argue willingly participating in and furthering an illegal,
global surveillance infrastructure is a character flaw consistent with
other morally objectionable behavior ;)



> ... On the other
> hand, if this were happening, would we ever find out?


in the case of MI5 agent Geoffrey Prime it was the local police:
"""
The case that really shocked Mrs Thatcher was the traitor Geoffrey
Prime. In the 1970s he had worked at the top secret listening centre
GCHQ and had been selling all it's secrets to the Russians.

And yet again it wasn't MI5 who uncovered his treachery - it was the
local police in Cheltenham.

In 1982 a policeman came to his house enquiring about his car - a
rather distinct two-tone brown and white Mk IV Cortina - a which had
been seen in the vicinity of an assault on a young girl.

Prime told the policeman that he had been at home all day. But that
evening he and his wife Rhona went for a drive to the top of Cleeve
Hill. As they sat in the twilight Prime told Rhona that he was the man
the police were looking for. And not only that, he was also a Russian
spy.

Here is part of a very powerful interview Rhona Prime gave to the BBC
where she describes that day - and what she then did.

Prime was a paedophile - and had used spying techniques to monitor the
activities of thousands of young girls around Cheltenham. He had
created a vast set of index cards which showed when the girls were
most likely to be alone at home. He then went round to their houses in
his two tone Cortina and sexually assaulted them.
"""
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER