Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by a Massive Attack | /r/technology

The spy system is not that much different from the massive amount of CCTV we have in the UK, but it’s interesting how the government are willing to pretend to be a hactivist organisation like they appear to be doing.

This post from mik3 seems to me like the main reason why we’ve got to oppose this sort of thing. I think this might be a good response to the “if they’re doing something wrong they need to be caught” that I get from so very many people around me.