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by Bartweiss 3298 days ago
I'm glad I'm not going nuts here. ECHELON was public knowledge all the way back in the 1980s, the European Parliament formally investigated in in 2001, but even in 2010 it was something you only joked about or people would look at you like a conspiracy theorist.

Sure, "the NSA listens to stuff" wasn't a revelation, but before 2013 very little of this was taken seriously outside of a few corners of tech and cybersec.