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In reply to the discussion: 3 Shocking Revelations from NSA's Most Terrifying Program Yet [View all]joshcryer
(62,536 posts)This reminds me of the end of Minority Report. The original ending basically said the overarching program saved lives. But then without it lives were lost. In which world would we prefer to live? The one with thoughtcrime but no actual crime, or the one with freedom to think but murders everywhere? Love the theme of this (I'd choose to be free thinking, btw.)
Sorry, that's a tangent. I'd still like to see those slides. Using encryption makes you a suspect, though, because they can't prove if you're talking to someone foreign or not (so the idea that you're not talking to someone foreign or that they're accounting for it is preposterous).
Eventually the entire net is just going to have to be encrypted. And we're going to have to deal with the consequences of that, too (thought of crime will be impossible to prove and acting on a crime as well).