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There's one solution to the latter. Shut down the agencies. Then distribute whatever systems they've been working on so they can be defended against.

It'd be unpopular for some (imagine if a more liberal party actually shut down the NSA or GCHQ, and then open sourced everything), but it'd certainly make an impact.



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