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Re: latest Snowden docs show NSA intercepts all Google and Yahoo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (berry@gadsdenst.org)
Fri Nov 1 14:35:54 2013
In-Reply-To: <5273E872.4050302@tiggee.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 14:35:12 -0400
From: berry@gadsdenst.org
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: berry@gadsdenst.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On 11/01/2013 01:08 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
[...]
>
> Given what we now know about the breadth of the NSA operations, and the
> likelihood that this is still only the tip of the iceberg - would anyone
> still point to NSA guidance on avoiding monitoring with any sort of
> confidence?
>
> There has always been cognitive dissonance in the dual roles of the NSA:
> 1. The NSA monitors.
> 2. The NSA provides guidance on how to avoid being monitored.
>
> Conflict?
>
> -DMM
>
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restaurants: "I taught him everything he knows about barbecue. I just
didn't teach him everything _I_ know about barbecue."
