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NSA folks scratching their heads
Authored by: drorh on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 07:28 PM EDT
This just serves to highlight the risk of collecting so much
information about everyone of us. Sooner a later, someone
who should not be able to access information about us would
gain such information and use it. Maybe you believe the US
government (the collective of people working for it) enough
that you do not worry but the existence of that information
means that other, nefarious, parties could also gain access
to that information and misuse it.

Given what happened in recent years with tea-party
activists, occupy-Wall-street activist or just IRS treatment
of right-leaning 501.3(c) organizations - the pattern has
already emerged and any sane person, regardless of political
orientation, should be worried.

From this perspective, Mr. Snowden has done a great service
to his country at a huge personal cost. As Judge Brandeis
said "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants"

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How could you omit the biggest FAIL?
Authored by: artp on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 11:58 AM EDT
The major problem is that this information was ever collected in the first place so that someone COULD have access to it?

I tend to discount your entire comment if you can't see THAT elephant in the room. It sounds rather trollish to me. Like you are trying to discredit the source of the information, rather than addressing the problem that he brought to light.

The government does not need all of that information. It is a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. THAT is the problem, not the character or failings of the person who brought it to our attention. He should get a medal, not an investigation.

Take a look at Congressman Alan Grayson in this video on Techdirt, so aptly titled "Rep. Grayson: Let Me Tell The NSA: There Is No Threat To Our Nation When I Call My Mother". Now if the other congresscritters will get behind him instead of putting lipstick on the pig to make it look like they are doing something about the problem du jour, then we might have made some progress.

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