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APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Mostly, they loved and lived for their work and thought everyone did, too.

Obviously that was back in the days before they could monitor what people are actually saying.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Every last employee and I contractor of the NSA I ever met was as about as bourgeois as you can get in the US without being labeled A CHARDONNAY SUCKING FUCKING HOMO FUCK FUDGE PACKING FAG LIMO LIBERAL FUCK. All PhDs except for an exceptional drop out. All rags - or at least farms - to comfortable middle-class to -riches stories.

Mostly, they loved and lived for their work and thought everyone did, too.

You must hang with the SIGINT crew.

The OPS crowd is are bit *different*.

Call it Crazy says

Huh??????

PatNet auto-adding a summary when posting a YouTube video.

"Sell Your Personal Data for $8 a Month"

Why didn't NSA think of this, or is this actually their response to Edward Snowden?

In Soviet America the government watches YOU!

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

New Renter says

You must hang with the SIGINT crew.

That is an assumption on your part, the accuracy of which I cannot confirm or deny.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard that one.

No really, I can't.

FortWayne says

In Soviet America the government watches YOU!

Any and all governments watch their citizens. Always have, always will.

This is why the founders drafted the 4th Ammendment: to restrict government intrusion into the private lives of citizens. Lately, judicial reinterpretation is rampant, allowing every sort of intrusion under rapidly multiplying circumstances. Even the safety of your a-hole is compromised, should a law officer decide he needs to look in there.

New Renter says

FortWayne says

In Soviet America the government watches YOU!

Any and all governments watch their citizens. Always have, always will.

I could tell you, but of course, I would then have to kill you.

New Renter says

FortWayne says

In Soviet America the government watches YOU!

Any and all governments watch their citizens. Always have, always will.

Not like this, not in America.

Quigley says

This is why the founders drafted the 4th Ammendment: to restrict government intrusion into the private lives of citizens. Lately, judicial reinterpretation is rampant, allowing every sort of intrusion under rapidly multiplying circumstances. Even the safety of your a-hole is compromised, should a law officer decide he needs to look in there.

FortWayne says

New Renter says

FortWayne says

In Soviet America the government watches YOU!

Any and all governments watch their citizens. Always have, always will.

Not like this, not in America.

You guys are assuming too much. Like the people doing the watching are working directly for the government and are not nested private contractors three or four levels removed so as to obfuscate the link.

You also assume the people doing the watching and who act on the information (officially) exist and you forget they are very VERY good at what they do.

Another: Tom Drake

Expect more NSA spys like Bill Binney to quit their work when they too realize their own technology backfires by exposing themselves as well.

So much for the cloud.

curious2 says

Another: Tom Drake

Drake took his grave concerns to his superiors at NSA, to Congress and to the NSA and Department of Defense Inspectors General (DoD IG). Retaliation soon followed. Management took aim at Drake's career by removing his responsibilities and shifting him to a meaningless position. He was increasingly isolated, singled-out, transferred away from projects, and marginalized. After his cooperation with DoD IG, which validated his concerns, Drake became the target of a wide-reaching and fruitless "leak" investigation related to the infamous NSA warrantless wiretapping scandal – despite the fact that he had nothing to do with the "leak" being investigated.

Deliberately providing false information to a DoD investigation regarding national security and taking that investigation off track is a serious crime, if not treason (aiding terrorist enemies of the U.S.). Whoever falsely accused Drake of being involved should be both fired and arrested.