In this case it's a large swath of people being spied upon, and not those open-carriers you so detest. Because every gun owner should be spied on extra according to your petty grudge, as if that's sone sort of poetic justice?

Good to know you won't stand up for those who've done you no wrong, let's not be friends.

The point wasn't whether they did it, but that they were planning to. Hence the word."planning" in the title. And you want your readers to think slashdot is trash? Why, so that they'll leave amd there can be a greater share of shills like you here?

" it takes surveillance/intelligence ops back to the physical world where you pay per target and not per system of mass surveillance"

You really think the NSA isn't going to pursue the destruction of privacy, regardless of how easy it is? As of less physical encryption will force them to respect us?

P.S. What passes for "Targeted surveillance" in recent times.. hasn't been very targeted at all.

"The government is enforcing the law"
Is allowing corporations like comcast and time warner to collide at the expense of their customers "enforcing the law"? Do you exoect a former cable lobbyist as thr FCC chief to "enforce the law"?

That's no reassurance.If they can't get a warrant, they can always resort to a national security letter or a gag order.

"they are not actively trying to get rid of our rights" *Not wanting an end to privacy *Wanting every possible scrap of info about every one of us Choose one.

Americans' web access often involves several hops abroad. Your reassurances of safeguards are undermined by every new news story indicating the NSA has broken its own rules countless times when spying on Americans. You sound like a shill.

A hardware-maker allowing its devices to be physically compromised by the government is absolutely not mundane--give me one example of this news being reported elsewhere before the Snowden leaks. Our own government disagrees with you, since it has taken great lengths to warn US businesses not to use Chinese networking hardware, for fear that the Chinese would do just what it is proven our own government has done.

http://www.reuters.com/article...

"Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, at a press conference to release the report, said companies that had used Huawei equipment had reported "numerous allegations" of unexpected behavior, including routers supposedly sending large data packs to China late at night."

And international markets agree with me (and not you) on the gravity of this news for Cisco's outlook:

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Cisco's CEO, John Chambers:

âoeI do think (the NSA revelation) is a factor in China.â In May 2014, in response to the alleged NSA spying programs, Chambers wrote the Obama Administration, âoeif these allegations are true, these actions will undermine confidence in our industry and in the ability of technology companies to deliver products globally.â

From a former NSA agent:
"The constant stream of news about NSAâ(TM)s activities has raised broader questions, particularly internationally, about the security of technologies coming from U.S. companies. This has been measurably hitting the bottom lines of companies like Cisco and Juniper and caused many companies to look to alternatives like Huawei."

How's that for "mundane"?

And your response now to my calling you out for posting spam... is to spam a different topic with unrelated garbage? Are you even sentient? Or are you just so scared of being called out that you hope if you try to harass me, I'll go away?

Snowden's leaks revealed how Cisco routers set to be exported were intercepted and physically compromised. I wouldn't say that the information reveleaed about the NSA's techniques is mundane in the least.

Look, all this isn't remotely believable. You clearly compounded that account's massive spamming attempts by needlessly quoting obscenely huge chunks of his nonsense. He's a paid shill and so are you--no amount of verbose whining on your part could hide the role of spamming you were playing in that thread.

Oh look, it's vague admonoshment from the token pro-establishment troll cold fjord. Are you going to tell me that i'm on the list too? But i'm happy you just post your silly disinfo aboit snowden as AC now--that means it has absolutely failed otherwise on slashdot.

Because it's a "crock"?

http://www.storyleak.com/tor-d...

The NSA has sought to co-opt it, just as the FBI has gone after secure email providers like lavabit and silent circle. By the way, these publicly-known issues would have been considered tinfoil hat material a mere 2 years ago--by you as well?

No one needs MSNBC just because Fox is a farce--they both represent the same entity--the Business Party. People should know not to turn to TV for news.

...and that that particularAnonymous (threatening to release the film) is a plant, and not really representative of anon