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Re:Why I Wrote PGP (1999) by ams6110 on Saturday November 30, 2013 @05:10PM (#6824872)
They had more than they needed to know to prevent 9/11. They didn't connect the dots. How would one more dot have helped?
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Re:Why I Wrote PGP (1999) by rtpg on Saturday November 30, 2013 @05:55PM (#6825049)
but the dots they had came from somewhere, right? And those were collected by some release of privacy.

The inverted argument is that, if a known criminal gets sent a letter through the mail, should the government be allowed to open it? Or is privacy that absolute?

The fact that both extremes (this and the postcard argument) seem a bit silly show that there's some sacrifice in privacy to be made.

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Re:Why I Wrote PGP (1999) by hsod on Saturday November 30, 2013 @05:18PM (#6824913)
It's a hypothetical
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