{"id":9298,"date":"2007-06-22T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9298"},"modified":"2007-06-22T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T16:08:33","slug":"france-fearful-of-blackberry-spying-by-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9298","title":{"rendered":"France fearful of BlackBerry spying by US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/allheadlines\/188479\">AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and now, a threat to French state secrets.<\/p>\n<p>That, at least, is the fear of French government defense experts, who have advised against their use by officials in France&#8217;s corridors of power, reportedly to avoid snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a question of trust,&#8221; French lawmaker Pierre Lasbordes told The Associated Press. &#8220;We are friends with the Americans, the Anglo-Saxons, but it&#8217;s economic war.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation:  &#8220;it&#8217;s not a matter of trust, you understand.   It&#8217;s just that, well, you bourgeois McDullards can&#8217;t be relied upon to not be untrustworthy &#8212; an important semantic difference that one can&#8217;t fully understand until one has fully immersed himself in Sartre and unfiltered cigarettes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, the French are worried that the NSA might finally nail down the secret to making a truly spec<em>tacular<\/em> sourdough bread base, or else unearth the methods used by pseudo-intellectual Frenchman for years to inexplicably convince French women to sleep with them in pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the AP: BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and now, a threat to French state secrets. That, at least, is the fear of French government defense experts, who have advised against their use by officials in France&#8217;s corridors of power, reportedly to avoid snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a question of trust,&#8221; French lawmaker Pierre Lasbordes told The Associated Press. &#8220;We are friends with<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9298\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}