Ishan Mukherjee’s Reviews > The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics > Status Update

The NSA has a surprisingly large remit for its operations. For example, snooping on the UN to get an upper hand in negotiations is perfectly legal. What's illegal is spying on American citizens, but "incidentally collected" data on them -- easy to come by on the world's interconnected networks -- is fair game.