I assume EU personnel saw similar files in 2013, when Spiegel covered this (neither they nor Globo released the bulk of the SWIFT files).
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Thing is SWIFT agreement really doesn't protect Europeans anyway. So big Q is why USG wasn't willing to tell Europol what they were up to
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What worries me most is that illicit modification of a trusted system is the first step to effectively setting it on fire.
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Right. At some point we're going to learn that USG did that. Just don't know when or where. It won't get reported in US for 4 years
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As w/SWIFT hack, it'll be a Big Deal in rest of world, w/Americans oblivious bc, exceptional.
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Then copy cats will start, like the Bangladesh hack. OUTRAGE!! How dare criminals tarnish the sanctity of SWIFT trust?!?!?!?!
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Then, another year later, NYT will report, as they did, "golly, we're kind of hypocritical fucks for investigating Bangladesh hack."
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All w/o realizing that public NSA hack preceded the Bangladesh hack.
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Though one possibility that should have immediately come to mind was "off the books cash."
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It's even possible we were piggybacking on someone else's (cough, Israel) spying, to see what they were interested in.
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This is the only tweet in this thread I understood. Though I can discern it is a very important thread.
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