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		MichaelGG on July 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything... That's like accusing AT&T of having a backdoor because your apartment has thin walls and someone could overhear. Or that your ISP has a backdoor because your WiFi isn't encrypted. The FBI was doing this decades ago with Carnivore. Why is it at all surprising that such a program continues to collect unencrypted information you sent over the Internet?

bobbydavid on Aug 1, 2013 [–]

access.

any citizen can go out and listen to public conversations, but we are not all invited to put our e-stethoscopes up to the internet backbone.

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