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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by jonnybgood on Friday October 16, 2015 @03:43PM (#10401582)
People expose and oppose the government everyday in various forms. You would expect the news to be filled with scandals of government opposers or we would have no opposition at all in the US due to them being blackmailed etc. Neither is true.
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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by thephyber on Friday October 16, 2015 @03:56PM (#10401642)
"The government" is not a person and has no feelings. Additionally, the government has massive resources and one individual has humble resources (even the very wealthy ones). This is an asymmetrical comparison.
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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by Karunamon on Friday October 16, 2015 @03:54PM (#10401632)
And? They ought to be exposed and opposed. They serve at our pleasure, not the other way around.
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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by jonnybgood on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:12PM (#10401723)
> they serve at our pleasure

No it actually doesn't and shouldn't. It would create a tyranny of the majority.

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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by ironsides on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:16PM (#10402058)
That my friend is called Democracy. When a majority rules..
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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by jMyles on Saturday October 17, 2015 @11:21AM (#10404638)
And that's why the United States was designed precisely to avoid becoming a democracy and instead be a republic.
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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by ionised on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:03AM (#10412000)
And look how that's turned out.

It took less than 200 years for it to devolve into a full-blown plutocracy.

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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by Nadya on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:16PM (#10401745)
Would you rather have tyranny left to the hands of a few?
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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by sosborn on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:08PM (#10401704)
Just because it isn't happening now does not mean it won't happen in the future.
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