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Re:NSA targets the privacy-conscious by Zak on Thursday July 03, 2014 @02:00PM (#7984634)
Because anyone trying to keep anything private or secure must be hiding something bad

The NSA does an awful lot of hiding things. It might therefore be reasonable to conclude that it is bad and should, at the very least have its funding cut.

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Re:NSA targets the privacy-conscious by tking8924 on Thursday July 03, 2014 @03:05PM (#7984988)
Got to stop people from doing things that they themselves are doing...

Anecdotally reminds of this guy that was key in setting up the British porn filter being arrested for child pornography: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10675...

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Re:NSA targets the privacy-conscious by deciplex on Thursday July 03, 2014 @09:19PM (#7986783)
A person is not a government agency ostensibly accountable to a democratic government and, therefore, public oversight. The NSA is. To the extent a democracy keeps secrets from voters, it is not a democracy. The US government keeps a lot of secrets.
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