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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by arthurcolle on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:31AM (#20863928)
What does this comment even mean?
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by lern_too_spel on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:50AM (#20864741)
It means that people think the leaks say what Greenwald claimed they said instead of what they actually said, and when those people tell their parents what Greenwald said, they sound like lunatics. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20456352
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by coldtea on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:29AM (#20864921)
A, the BS "there's an added hop so it's not happening/serious" defense. People still fall for this?
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by lern_too_spel on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:59AM (#20865085)
The added hop means that the NSA can't request anything they want from the Internet messaging companies. They can only see foreigner data from the specific users the FBI has already wiretapped via court order. There are no leaked documents that say otherwise and plenty of documents that corroborate my assertions.

This is why it hasn't been ruled illegal. Do people actually believe that phone metadata collection is illegal but the crazy thing Greenwald misread PRISM to be is not? That's going to trip grecy's university-educated family's bullshit detector.

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