See the people who are making these statements don't know. The only people who know are the ops teams, and they really can't tell, because they could fairly easily just disappear.
Re:Cowards
by dylangs1030 on Saturday June 08, 2013 @03:10AM
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I think it's incredibly important that more people understand this. It was a somewhat obfuscated fact in the New York Times article, but it's still incredibly important to acknowledge.
Re:Cowards
by milkshakes on Saturday June 08, 2013 @03:14AM
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The people who are making these statements aren't just winging it. They wouldn't actually make the statements before finding out if there was any substance to it. Both statements stopped well short of actually denying that the government has been wholesale mining their users data, and called for policy changes from the federal government. What do you think they found out?
Do you really believe the U.S. government is "disappearing" people?
Re:Cowards
by peterjancelis on Saturday June 08, 2013 @04:36AM
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What do you think (some) field agents of an intelligence agency do?
Re:Cowards
by bernardlunn on Saturday June 08, 2013 @04:42AM
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The conf call double dare is unlikely, but imagine the commercial benefit of the one who broke ranks. The most likely is one with least to lose eg AOL or Yahoo or Microsoft.
> Perhaps you could all get on a conference call tonight and double dare each other to do it all together, at the same time.
> βThe NSA makes us do things that crush our Constitution, and then they make us never talk about it.β
> I hope one of them does
They don't need to lead any revolutions, or even leak classified information. The cat is out of the bag, so to speak. All he's asking for is for them to not lie to us, especially when they know that we know that what they're saying is demonstrably false.