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Re:New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-... by bithive123 on Thursday June 27, 2013 @07:58PM (#5955459)
It may be true that you can't trust anyone in the abstract but practically speaking we need to be able to trust our government, to a point, with all sorts of powers and abilities.

Consensus mistrust of the government should worry us more than any particular capabilities it has.

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Re:New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-... by dfc on Thursday June 27, 2013 @08:22PM (#5955535)
Consensus mistrust? Did you just coin a new phrase or is that some new lingo the kids are saying these days? I have never heard it before and google was no help.

I think the issue here is not so much "trust" but "trust and verify." With a proper level of effective oversight it seems that things would be much different.

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