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by drasticmeasures 2828 days ago
Just commenting on this thread is enough.

The NSA / MI# / [Military Intel of Country X] know me. I know them. I don't do shit. They don't do shit beyond some pranks and exchanging banter. What are people so paranoid about?

When you get to meet the boogeymen, they have amazing tech developed by someone else, but the people who use it are stupid, incompetent, paranoid military average joes who more often than not shoot themselves on the foot or cause the problem they were trying to prevent because they never de-escalate.

Secrecy, violence and a carefully-built media reputation just hides how ineffective they are despite mass surveillance and infiltration of all public online communities.