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In reply to the discussion: Do you support Edward Snowden leaking the classified NSA secret program details? [View all]Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)Reason why is illustrated by this anecdote: many years ago someone leaked that Osama was being tracked via his cellphone. Needless to say he never used a cellphone again.
This is similar. The level of detail on the program revealed here is more than enough to allow the real bad guys knowledge of what not to do from now on. As set up, the program had been going on for many years, it had already taken down at least one plot, and the way it worked wasn't violating anyone's right to privacy. You can spin all kinds of super-paranoid ct's on what COULD be done by the NSA, but so what? You could do that about anything. And as the Boston bombing showed, any time you go shopping or to the bank your picture is being taken and in theory all your movements could easily be tracked visually.
But really, no one is interested in your meanderings on the intertubes. You're just not that important.