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Originally Posted by Skybird
The NSA is coming for us all
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Then tell me, Skybird, how are governments to protect themselves and their populace from domestic cyber terrorism? Turn off the internet?
The genie is out of the bottle, the internet has been free and unregulated unlike any other form of media for a while now simply because governments did not see it coming and have spent the last two decades scrambling to catch up.
Of course we're going to be under surveillence, we've been under surveillence for decades, centuries even, all that's changed is the ease in which it is done.
Let's face it, how would you know if the house across the road from you actually contained a police task-force watching your every move? That car that parked up at the end of the street, how do you know it's not plain clothes police officers watching you? When you pick up the telephone to ring someone, how do you know that your message is private? When you send mail, how do you know it's not been intercepted, opened, read and resealed again?
Simple answer, you don't, you never have done and you never will.
It's there, it's always been there, and it's not going to go away.
You can run around in circles trying to escape it, but short of moving into the middle of Africa and living in a mud hut, you'll never succeed.