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Re:Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spyi... by neil_s_anderson on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:26PM (#43348316)
The point of bulk data collection is to be able to, in effect, take a wiretap in the past before you knew what you'd need to be wiretapping in the present, by querying the bulk datasets for communications between specific endpoints within specific points in time.

As time travel doesn't exist, this is the next best technology available.

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Re:Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spyi... by ziddoap on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:40PM (#43348461)
I think we all know that. We, or I at least, don't agree with it.
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Re:Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spyi... by neil_s_anderson on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:44PM (#43348490)
You don't agree with monitoring the communications of adversaries at all, or you don't agree with doing the equivalent for communications made in the recent past?
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Re:Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spyi... by ziddoap on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:46PM (#43348501)
I don't agree with mass collection of data of non-guilty/non-suspected citizens for "just in case" situations in the future.
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Re:Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spyi... by t-3 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:56PM (#43348969)
When the country's own citizens are the "adversaries", that's a highly fucked up government and government agency. If the people are the enemy the country is dead.
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Re:Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spyi... by akomtu on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:58PM (#43348993)
And the adversaries is the entire nation at this point.
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Re:Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spyi... by netsharc on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @08:29PM (#43349198)
Ah, the East German State Police mentality...

Sadly, governments end up becoming corrupt. In one formerly free nation (or at least it was one that obnoxiously bragged about being one), data about women's periods became weaponized in a witchhunt against abortions.

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