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Re:NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless ... by kupopuffs on Sunday January 15, 2023 @04:30PM (#34393668)
Big government should just be treated as another customer of Big Tech
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Re:NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless ... by speedgoose on Sunday January 15, 2023 @04:50PM (#34393901)
That would give them too much power, it is dangerous.
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Re:NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless ... by LinuxBender on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:00PM (#34395053)
They have been since WWII. In the recent years the CIA has been quite busy in silicon valley. [1] Prior to that many projects funded by DARPA were tested and refined by the general public. The internet was one of the projects.

[1] - https://mattermark.com/q-tel-cias-vc-arm-busy-years/

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Re:NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless ... by est31 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @10:12PM (#34396381)
FWIW CIA involvement is much older than "recent years".

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-p...

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