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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by burrows on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @01:58PM (#22937500)
The NSA agent didn't have a "search warrant".
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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by marcus_holmes on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @03:35AM (#22943155)
No they didn't, but they proved who they were to the OP's satisfaction, and left it to him to decide whether he should help them or not.

To me, this is a bit of a no-brainer. A government agency wants my help to do something. Do I trust them? Do I help them? Well... yes. They're the government. Incompetent sometimes, irrelevant a lot of the time, inefficient, sure. But ultimately there to provide a service for me as a citizen. If they need my help, then I should probably help them.

I understand that Americans don't trust their government like this. I'm not sure why not.

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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by duncan_bayne on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:17AM (#22944041)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

Those two spring to mind immediately, and I'm not American, I'm Australian.

Personally, I don't understand why anyone trusts their Government more than the bare minimum required to support the rule of law.

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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by ycombi3 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:54AM (#22955374)
You can lead a horse to water.... People are way to trusting.
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