Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail

Re:Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail by Karunamon on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @11:59AM (#5940377)

Depends on your end goal. If the goal is actually what's stated, I.e. stopping terrorists, there is no value.

If the actual goal is to produce a massive database of citizen activities for later (ab)use, then there is a huge benefit for the government.

Since all of the evidence seems to point to scenario #2 (since there is no good reason that tracking those eeeevul turrists) requires all this information from innocent people, I think we can safely assume their excuse is a shitty facade.

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Re:Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail by pjnewton on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @03:07PM (#5941673)

I'm really hoping this is cloaked sarcasm...

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Re:Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail by Karunamon on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @03:17PM (#5941741)

? The databases being collected are much more suited to harassing innocents than capturing terrorists. You disagree?

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Re:Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail by pjnewton on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @06:20PM (#5942823)

I disagree that there is some anti-American nefariousness going on with this data collection mess.

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Re:Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail by flyinRyan on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @08:11AM (#5945475)

Oh they very likely believe they are the best patriots. Just as Hoover did.

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