Lavabit founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'

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129. They have run out credible enemies

A lot of people who hang around here have spent a of time trying to figure out what happened on 9/11. I don't know the percentages of who thinks or believe what but i would put money on the mihop theory. The expansive growth of the metadata wasn't able to take off till mihop was accomplished. The final sucker punch before they could take whatever measures they wanted. It's a strange group think they have.

The idea they have all this data and on and on seems irrelevant to me. A more coherent view if you used logic would be of that idea has gone amok. There is no real practical use of such large data bases unless you were needing to run a totalitarian state or had it out in the open in some weird way and were doing research with it.

What it seems me is just another way to waste money secretly. Of course it's used for intimidation and to create the illusion of knowledge but it's really not a self-perpetuating enterprise. That's to say it's of no great practical use especially when you consider the amount of resources invested in such.