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If data is easy to eavesdrop, then somebody will. This is also an engineering problem. We've got broadband, we've got capable CPUs, there's no excuse for not encrypting everything.


And if they do suspect you of something, they will water-board you in a country with no human rights to stop the "ticking bomb" they use to excuse themselves. Not sure how long I'd last, TBH. If you are lucky, you'll got to jail.

That's the way it is, and will be until people wake up and change politics.


The problem with that is it isn't very scalable. The NSA being able to spy on the world is very much a very recent economic reality.


Yes, though just because it's not scalable doesn't mean it's not an injustice.


Or likely to deter others. Terror, flipped.




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