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In reply to the discussion: Snowden says he could see what I do on the web. [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)and that's where I have problems with your "well reasoned/rational posts" that we aren't living in the times NOW that were THEN.
What you've kept up with isn't how FAR things have gone since you worked in the "industry."
They took "Steps too Far" and that's what Snowden revealed and why it's important enough that Angela Merkle had to negotiate carefully with Obama because the Population in both US and Germany is much more informed and angry about the NSA Spying involved in International relationships and their Populations (particularly the Young) are really almost in revolt. THEY are the ones who know how to Hack and like Snowden they are much more sophisticated than back the days you and I might know about "how things work," since technology has moved so far beyond what many of us in our age group could have imagined.
It's not enough to "TRUST" anymore with what we've seen these days. I hope, on some level, you understand what I am trying to say about how ....it isn't what it was...and the "controls" are not there like what you and I might have grown up with and expected. That crew of watchful/experience has passed on...to the other world...because of age. The Technological Explosion has moved forward faster than the LAWS to keep up with it.
That's what Snowden has tried to expose...is what I am saying.