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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by jessedhillon on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:28PM (#5862840)
I'm sorry that you understood my statement to be of the form "no such person exists, such that..." when in fact I was expressing a conclusion about the typical (perhaps stereotyped) person with this background.
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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by Anderkent on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:34PM (#5862900)
The point is that whether a typical person understands that kind of system is irrelevant. He's already highly atypical by virtue of working for the NSA and being a whistle-blower.
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