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GoneFishin

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51. There have been reported cases of operators using it to spy on their exes.
Mon Nov 23, 2015, 08:26 PM
Nov 2015

Human nature hasn't changed much since Hoover kept his blackmail dossiers on his enemies in Washington.

I get a big laugh from people who think that wearing a suit and tie, and having an important sounding titled engraved on a name placard on your desk makes you incapable of sleazy exploitative and illegal behavior.

Naive.

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so says shameless liar Glenn Greenwald LOL uhnope Nov 2015 #1
Please identify one lie in this piece. marmar Nov 2015 #2
lol. I didn't say that and you know it. uhnope Nov 2015 #3
As I suspected. The usual word salad bullshit. marmar Nov 2015 #4
No surprise that "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right" is incomprehensible to the Greenwald cult uhnope Nov 2015 #5
Sarah Palin called. She'd like you to return her incoherent babble. marmar Nov 2015 #7
I refutiate that. Enthusiast Nov 2015 #15
yr English teacher called. She'd like you to not tell anybody that you attended her class uhnope Nov 2015 #42
No, I can't comprehend incoherent babble. marmar Nov 2015 #43
So you're saying wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #17
an effective propagandist mixes truth with BS & that's GG to a T uhnope Nov 2015 #24
what part is the BS I ask again? n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #28
yet you can't wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #33
If someone asked you to listen to David Duke speak for 15 minutes because it's "the truth", would u? uhnope Nov 2015 #36
yes I might. wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #38
sorry, then it's a lost cause uhnope Nov 2015 #40
Ironic since you not only read stormfront but post their links here. Jesus Malverde Nov 2015 #45
with that smearing lie of yours, you've just totally discredited yourself uhnope Nov 2015 #48
lulz. Jesus Malverde Nov 2015 #53
after you finished reading the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, uhnope Nov 2015 #55
LOL my friend. Jesus Malverde Nov 2015 #56
Don't hold your breath zeemike Nov 2015 #6
lol. I love it when authoritarians smear others as authoritarians. uhnope Nov 2015 #8
And I love the "I'm rubber you're glue" response. zeemike Nov 2015 #9
Excuse me, but I don't know enough about Scientology to get that Jack Rabbit Nov 2015 #12
I'm not bothering to watch it. Why don't you summarize GG's main points and then we'll discuss? uhnope Nov 2015 #26
Point out the lies so we can discuss your opinion? Otherwise Greenwald is 100% correct. We remember sabrina 1 Nov 2015 #21
Sorry, I'm not wasting 16 minutes of my time listening to Greenwald blather on and on uhnope Nov 2015 #25
Well if you don't know what he said, any comment you make about it isn't going to be very sabrina 1 Nov 2015 #27
you are missing the point. & you don't seem to know what he said either uhnope Nov 2015 #34
so you claim that GG is mixing BS with truth... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #35
brush up on yr reading skills uhnope Nov 2015 #37
my reading is fine.... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #39
lol. that means you can't. you can't even say what GG's points are uhnope Nov 2015 #41
The Global Establishment Will Use Paris As A Cudgel To Justify Further Illegal Surveillance cantbeserious Nov 2015 #10
precisely! n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #54
Sleeper Cell, on Showtime Babel_17 Nov 2015 #11
Sounds like not a good thing at all. What is your snagglepuss Nov 2015 #13
I defer to the independent experts Babel_17 Nov 2015 #14
Look up Phil Zimmermann and PGP cprise Nov 2015 #19
Free speech issue as in people of influence, who know how the system works, ... Babel_17 Nov 2015 #23
No. Encryption is a way that people communicate. cprise Nov 2015 #29
I see Babel_17 Nov 2015 #30
I remember such a case cprise Nov 2015 #31
Here's the gist of it Babel_17 Nov 2015 #32
More bullshit excuses for collecting information that is none of their fucking business to get GoneFishin Nov 2015 #16
precisely! n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #18
interesting conspiracy theory uhnope Nov 2015 #44
Can you give me an example of when it wasn't? GoneFishin Nov 2015 #47
lol uhnope Nov 2015 #49
It's a time bomb waiting to be misused Babel_17 Nov 2015 #50
There have been reported cases of operators using it to spy on their exes. GoneFishin Nov 2015 #51
Links related to this 90-percent Nov 2015 #20
He has embarrassed authoritarians. GoneFishin Nov 2015 #52
Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History Babel_17 Nov 2015 #22
it could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be sh Jesus Malverde Nov 2015 #46
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