This is an excellent, MUST READ editorial from the FT. Check it out!
In my view, the article is balanced and highlights the risk of over-reacting to this major breach of trust. It concludes that energies still need to be concentrated on spying activities of Russia and China.
Any thoughts?
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Dr Alf's Blog 
Dr Alf raises an important point about cyber warfare in that China has at least 4 million people engaged in it and is penetrating our networks in Government,the media,Big Business,the military and the inboxes of the rich and powerful.
Russia has 2 million people doing this,mostly in the GRU and India has started to develop its own capability in this area.
We have been spying since Elizabeth the 1st was on the throne when the first “C” was appointed to her secret service which became the forerunner of what is MI5 and MI6 today.
We under Sir William Stephenson taught the Americans who developed the OSS in World War 2 which then became the CIA with the other bodies like the NSA coming into prominence more recently.
Spying is necessary for our own security but we seem to have reached a point where the only privacy we have will come from entrusting our thoughts to Basildon Bond and sending an old fashioned letter.
Certainly I have no illusions that any e mail I send and any telephone call and Skype call I make is not being monitored by one of General Alexander,s machines and by ourselves.
The same applies to this and the rest of Dr Alf,s blogs but as concerned citizens who want people to do well,get on and prosper the UK Government and its allies need to focus on really dangerous troublemakers in our midst and further afield who wish to undermine our way of life,establish Caliphates and damage Western interests.
What Angela Merkel,s mobile has to do with this is another issue which relates to her rising power within Europe , the extent of her relationships with the Chinese, Russian and Brazilian leaderships and her position on Israel vis a vis Iran and the plans for regime change in the Middle East and later Eurasia.
Whereas David Cameron does not get on with these regimes ,Angela Merkel does,thus creating mistrust over her long term motives which I think have to do with trade ,business and exports rather than geopolitical manoevering.
Reblogged this on the harsh light of day….