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Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by M2Ys4U on Friday July 31, 2015 @11:41PM (#9985831)
>However, the average citizen is not a target of the NSA.

The average citizen is exactly the target of the NSA. Their goal is to own everybody and then figure out what to do afterwards.

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Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by TallGuyShort on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @11:15AM (#10010352)
Owning everyone is the very opposite of the definition of a targeted attack. My point is not allowing your data to be collected en masse is a reasonable precaution against mass surveillance.
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