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Re:How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (2013) by anon2264 on Sunday February 05, 2017 @07:29PM (#13575619)
In season 1 of the X-Files the 'Lone Gunmen,' a group of conspiracy theorists, was added to the show to make Mulder appear more credible and down-to-earth. One of their 'crazy, batshit insane,' conspiracy theories was that the government was recording all of our phone calls.

think of all of the circumstances we've become used to now that were the territory of conspiracy theorists 25 years ago.

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Re:How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (2013) by wtbob on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:19PM (#13576072)
> One of their 'crazy, batshit insane,' conspiracy theories was that the government was recording all of our phone calls.

> think of all of the circumstances we've become used to now that were the territory of conspiracy theorists 25 years ago.

There may be many such circumstances, but certainly not the one you mention: the government doesn't record all of our phone calls.

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Re:How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (2013) by tastythrowaway2 on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:53PM (#13576175)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/04/teleph...
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