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Re:Poll: Will you be changing how you manage your data after... by mikeash on Saturday June 08, 2013 @07:37PM (#5846759)
By far the most surprising thing about this stuff is that everyone is surprised by it.
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Re:Poll: Will you be changing how you manage your data after... by lemming on Saturday June 08, 2013 @07:52PM (#5846804)
I think people (including me) have been surprised by the scope of it rather than that it's happening.
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Re:Poll: Will you be changing how you manage your data after... by plorkyeran on Saturday June 08, 2013 @08:08PM (#5846853)
I was mostly surprised by that the official response was "fuck the Constitution" rather than denying that the monitoring was happening.
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Re:Poll: Will you be changing how you manage your data after... by javert on Sunday June 09, 2013 @11:17AM (#5849168)
That's been the official response for decades. (Sidenote: most Americans agree with that sentiment.)
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Re:Poll: Will you be changing how you manage your data after... by Zigurd on Saturday June 08, 2013 @09:21PM (#5847085)
The story of the Emperor's New Clothes is not a story about a naked emperor. He was naked all along. Everyone could see he was naked. Yet nobody spoke of it.

It is about how one unsophisticated, unvested, powerless person pointed out the fact that everyone up to that point had been ignoring. From then on, nobody could ignore it. That is what we are experiencing now.

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Re:Poll: Will you be changing how you manage your data after... by mikeash on Saturday June 08, 2013 @09:10PM (#5847044)
I just assumed they have been spying on everyone since at least the warrantless wiretapping thing from a decade ago, if not longer.
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Re:Poll: Will you be changing how you manage your data after... by cranefly on Saturday June 08, 2013 @07:50PM (#5846794)
What's wrong with these people, don't they watch homeland?
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