[chocolatebunny]

Your message sounds kind of ominous but I'd like to point out hanlon's razor. The NSA sounds like another public sector organization that just tries to spend us much money as it can to justify itself getting so much money. The problem is when people with access to that information try to use it for their own personal gain, or when they use this information against anyone who speaks out against the NSA's ridiculous budget because they think that anyone who speaks out against the NSA obviously is a threat to National Security.

Both those things might have happened already.

[chrischen]

I think it’s much simpler. They’re just trying to do their job and make it easier. A bigger budget is the means.

[e12e]

You might want to review William Binney's Hope9 talk:

https://archive.org/details/Hope9KeynoteByWilliamBinney

Or:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FOFtQ6n3WR4