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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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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

file this one under what? 'no shit, sherlock', 'well, duh', or 'told you so'?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's why we always said you shouldn't ever give government these kinds of surveillance powers. The oversight was already lacking as it was, and now you've got an actual fascist in charge. And you didn't do jack shit to reign it in at all after the first Trump presidency. This is why people hate the Democrats.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is Ron Wyden. He's been fighting the "no duh" fight for his entire career. Fighting against surveillance and for personal privacy rights, net neutrality, etc. He's a real one.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 2 days ago

The only one lol

Hence why we are so cooked

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago

Il go with this one:

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago

Democratic governments - setting up for totalitarian takeover since 5th Century BCE.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

The democrats see stuff like this and think “well if he uses is then we can use it like that when we’re in power!”

[–] 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

[–] Mestone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago