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by projectramo 3690 days ago
Purely out of curiosity: why did people downvote this comment?

If someone who didn't downvote this wants to speculate, please let me know.

The downvoting is sometimes spot on, but sometimes it seems a little arbitrary.

IMHO, rboyd was just pointing out the potential privacy issues in a humorous way.

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I didn't downvote, but I can think of a few reasons.

1) It doesn't add anything to the conversation. Yes the NSA watches everything in some way, saying so is redundant.

2) Presumably the connection is encrypted, so the NSA just sees a long lived connection between your and an Amazon data center.

3) Actively pulling data off of a privately owned server inside the US is a bit (but only a bit) of a stretch for what we know about what the NSA does.