Well, I see here more of the argument that everybody does it, so relax. 
Not so.

The USA NSA case is far broader, with massive historical and 
state-of-the-art expertise, with resources, power and leverage to peek 
into the entire Internet, including the processing and storage power to 
do brute-force capturing and analysing of information which no other 
country does. And are massively investing much more to go even deeper.

In Brazil until at least 2002 they operated a full satellite station in 
Brasilia (no reason why it is not still operational somewhere), and in 
the 90s they had Brazilians trained by CIA and the FBI, including 
members of the Federal Police, to work for them -- to the point that FHC 
(initials of the former president just before Lula) became know as 
FHCia. One of the chief officials involved wrote his "confessions" years 
later -- there is abundant info on this. Today all of our satellite 
systems remain in the hands of transnational corporations, having been 
privatized by FHCia in the 90s. All security/state/military sat 
communications go through foreign-owned sat channels.

Please do not lose time saying that Brazil or France or Zambia or... 
also do it in order to play down this extremely serious situation. The 
USA league on this is a league of only one. The Brits may only compare 
in the James Bond movies...

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 07/15/2013 06:45 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
> Anything that uses Snowden as an argument is just part of the international circus he enabled by his actions. He became a puppet of those who he criticizes.
>
> BTW the intelligence services of Brazil as SNI and ABIN don't have a very good track record spying on political figures and activists.
>
> Another development on that circus, the government of Bolivia will stop using cellphones and email.
>
> Anything goes in the battle against the evil empire.
>
> -Jorge
>
> On Jul 15, 2013, at 1:58 AM, Nuno Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I don't understand how the Brazilian Foreign Minister can support Russia's claims for the UN to control the Internet.
>>
>> Really?!?!!?!
>