• @[email protected]
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      They are very competent.

      National security agency. They understand security.

      The problem is usually around incentives… What is good for the national security may not be good for the individual and vise versa.

      When the incentives line up, they are the good guys.

      So when they talk about defending American infrastructure against state actors in the context of Russia or China, the advice is good.

      When they talk about why people don’t need end to end encryption or why public cryptography is a national threat… The advice is bad.

      • @[email protected]
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        427 days ago

        they don’t even need to put shit directly on our devices to get what they want really, they have a wiretap into all the advertising companies and all the internet providers and all the cellphone and land line providers. They have a wiretap into every remotely accessible camera system. They don’t need to come up with more invasive ways to get into all our shit but they keep doing it.

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          327 days ago

          It’s so blatantly unconstitutional, and yet they keep renewing the programs. We’re never getting our constitutional right to privacy back without extreme measures.

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            225 days ago

            It’s so blatantly unconstitutional,

            Careful, someone called me a fascist for saying that about this issue.

              • @[email protected]
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                125 days ago

                I was once called a “right winger” and a “trump supporter” over on reddit because I talked about how awesome self-governing local communities would be.

                Who better to decide what happens in a town than the people who actually live there?

                There’s paid trolls and bots that muddy the waters about everything.

                • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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                  125 days ago

                  You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.