Everyone from janitors to the Geek Squad could be forced to help the NSA spy — and Democrats barely put up a fight.

  • @[email protected]
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    2919 days ago

    file this one under what? ‘no shit, sherlock’, ‘well, duh’, or ‘told you so’?

    • @[email protected]
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      2419 days ago

      Yeah, it’s why we always said you shouldn’t ever give government these kinds of surveillance powers. The oversight was already lacking as it was, and now you’ve got an actual fascist in charge. And you didn’t do jack shit to reign it in at all after the first Trump presidency. This is why people hate the Democrats.

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        1519 days ago

        This is Ron Wyden. He’s been fighting the “no duh” fight for his entire career. Fighting against surveillance and for personal privacy rights, net neutrality, etc. He’s a real one.

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    The democrats see stuff like this and think “well if he uses is then we can use it like that when we’re in power!”

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    119 days ago

    Reading Doctorow’s “Little Brother” today and it’s scary as hell.

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      Hacker Peiter Zatko stated that the book is now used as training material for new NSA recruits in order to give them a different point of view.

      Lol