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The article forgets to mention it is close to the Bundestagswahl (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_2013), on September 22nd. Some major news outlets confront the german government open in a very aggressive way, especially when it comes to intelligence agencies, and how the chancellor tries to play the problems down.

The freedom of press which is part if the german grundrecht (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Repub...) would be violated in very harsh way, if something like the guardian story would happen in germany. It adds fuel to the whole discussion how the uk and us treat their citizens and their allies.

Just for the record, the german government disapproves the usage of windows 8 for government usage, and has approved bitcoin as an currency-derivative.