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TOP SENATOR WARNS SWEEPING NEW SURVEILLANCE POWERS WILL “INEVITABLY BE MISUSED” BY TRUMP (theintercept.com)

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

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reading Doctorow's "Little Brother" today and it's scary as hell.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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