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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by drzaiusapelord on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @12:13PM (#6683770)
That's quite a claim. Right now the NSA holds privileged information for millions of Americans. What happens if one of those people becomes some populist political entity. It would be trivial for the NSA to leak dirt of any kind (sexual fetishes, hangups, private emails to wife, other private things that when taken to the public would look bad, trash talking others, etc) to help discredit this person. Imagine that this person ran on a platform for cutting down the NSA or reforming the intelligence agencies. How "protected" do you think this "metadata" would be?

The Chinese wouldn't do that to me. They don't have a dog in this fight.

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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by largehotcoffee on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @01:53PM (#6684588)
That's quite a claim.
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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by jlgreco on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @02:55PM (#6685042)
US Government agencies using "dirt" to smear and/or blackmail populist political figures is a historic fact.
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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by rallison on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @04:14PM (#6685548)
Exactly. See Martin Luther King Jr [0] as an example. Private information obtained through surveillance was leaked by government agencies in an attempt to discredit him.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#FBI_an...

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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by drzaiusapelord on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @04:15PM (#6685556)
I know a lot of Snowden's and Assanges' sex life and many, many personal details. I've never actively seeked out that information.

Also, the US has proven experience in smearing political characters. Heck, even John fucking Lennon had an FBI file full of personal information.

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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by rfnslyr on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @03:50PM (#6685419)
It would have also been "quite a claim" awhile back about the NSA collecting anything and everything about citizens. I don't get your comment.
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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by n09n on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @10:17PM (#6687233)
They don't have a dog in that fight because you specifically chose the fight to make that true. If the same person ran on a different platform that argued for, say, boycotting or tariffing Chinese green energy products in order to build up local industries, the Chinese would care but the NSA would not.
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