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Re:3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are abo... by electromagnetic on Thursday December 29, 2011 @12:22AM (#3402639)
Jesus dude stop fucking trolling. Mail tampering isn't illegal through an accident of legislature, it's illegal because even a hundred years ago they realised its a serious deal.

As long as I only copy your social insurance number, credit card numbers, banking information, etc, what does it matter? I'm just copying!

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Re:3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are abo... by nitrogen on Thursday December 29, 2011 @01:16AM (#3402752)
Reading between the lines, I gather that angersock's underlying point was just that technological solutions are superior to legislative solutions, with the twist that technical capability equals moral acceptability. Apologies to angersock if I interpreted incorrectly.
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