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kleinbl00  ·  3220 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tin Foil Hat Club

As I've said before, you should feel outraged at the penetration governments have into your private life in the name of security. As I've said before, you have no practical concerns from domestic surveillance because the NSA's basic approach to finding a needle in a haystack is to make sure the haystack is as big as possible in order to ensure that there's a needle in there somewhere.

Look. The NSA has been busted trading your dick pics. The TSA has been busted scanning and trading and chortling over your body scans. Spooks will abuse data. That's what they do. But collectively, the data miners have no real agency or coordination to do anything truly nefarious. The reality of the situation is we have lived in a world where every communication made goes through the NSA since 2003 but even after Russian Intelligence passed the FBI a mash note saying "Hey, this Tsarniev guy is likely to be a problem" he was able to haul a pressure cooker full of nails, ball bearings and fertilizer explosive to a public place and set it off. Tashfeen Malik? Facebooked about supporting Jihad in 2012. These are legit terrorists with ties to recognized militant organizations and a travel pattern involving hotspots and training camps and the vast US surveillance apparatus failed utterly to so much as flag them for warning.

How on earth are they going to figure out anything about you?