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Re:Snowden on the Lightning Network on Nostr by unity1001 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:02PM (#34510331)
> PRISM was... A web front-end that would produce warrants, that would be served to the various internet companies, who would respond to them by providing the information requested. [1] > But half the people in the tech community seem to think that it was some magical all-seeing-eye-of-Sauron that had backdoors and zero-day-exploits embedded in every webservice we use

Those two are literally the same. The former is worse even, since there is no escaping from it - one way or the other they will get your data over some service you used or had to use at a point in history. The latter can be avoided in many ways.

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Re:Snowden on the Lightning Network on Nostr by vkou on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:18PM (#34512564)
No, one of them is done through the framework of law, the other one is just banditry.

Like, you may not like the idea that the police can serve warrants, or that there are NSLs or a FISA court, but the agency was very much following the rules there. Rules can be challenged in court, rules can be changed.

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