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Get informed, and inform.

Then, one can hope, the government might actually be forced to engage in meaningful discussion about whether their ridiculously expensive and obviously damaging espionage programs make sense.


It's far more likely that this data was willingly shared by an application developer who was the victim of a crime the FBI is investigating.

Not everything is a government conspiracy.


"Get informed, and inform." Straight up manifesto material. Gratzi!

"...engage in meaningful discussion.." It's hard to engage in meaningful dialogue with people who are so entrenched in their own views (BIG$$,BIGOIL,BIGGOVV-types) but we shall continue!


> TSA Defies Court

Which is basically moot, since they're both on the side of "national security".

Which more or less translates to "we can do what we like to protect you from terrorism, no we won't answer your questions at the risk of helping terrorists, and yes you absolutely must pay us billions to do it, or we will all die in a fiery ball of terrorism".

And if you doubt any of this, well, we have some questions we'd like to ask you about the nature of your trip, sir.


The terrorists have gotten what they wanted; massive expenditures and legislations against freedom in the name of security.


That was their goal? Really?



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