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by prollyignored 4751 days ago
Does anyone watch american TV shows ?

The idea that security > privacy is brainwashed into the american masses.

Does anyone work as a sysadmin ?

wheel users can read every one's data.

Does anyone go to internet facebook/forums/mailing-lists ?

They are mini totalitarian states where lusers are killed. The rhetoric ? Order and kill spam.

The point is, internet has never been a shining example of democracy. There are no privacy laws for sysadmins.

The internet ocean-tubes are owned by the government, the fact that they want to read email is no fairer than forum admin "banning" lusers or running sql.

In 1984, every home has a cctv. Our 1984 is a paradise. TV's are the thought police. Hollywood takes care of public anger. Internet gives faux democracy.

The government didn't do anything with it. The government only copied what admins since 1980 have been doing.

You are interacting a with an interactive cctv !

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>The point is, internet has never been a shining example of democracy. There are no privacy laws for sysadmins.

By using a system, you presumably agree to some terms and conditions you never read. Since I also never read them, I'm going to go ahead and presume that those terms and conditions state that any data or activity on said machine is and can be monitored by a sysadmin. If you don't want to be watched, you have to be the sysadmin.

Since I'm too noob to downvote, I thought I'd just chime in here and inform you that you are wrong.

If NSA open sources their implementation,

every country in the world,

every telecom org,

big-data companies like Google+Yahoo+Facebook+MS+Apple,

forum software like HN+reddit+phpbb

should run it on GPLv2 cloud linux boxes

with the help of ninja sysadmins

operating without laws

to fight

* spam

* trolls

* terrorists

* people who disagree with status-quo

* pedophiles

* credit-card fraud

* psychopaths on loose

* rapists

* Steve jobs haters

I don't think HN has an admin interface, to kick all the hatrz. pg should contact the NSA !

Best of all, since state laws don't apply inside organizations, we can have "Terms and Conditions" that say

> You guys trust us with your data ?

> Ha ha !

> No guarantees

> what ever

Interesting POV. The gov't laid that submarine cable with tax money though, the cables belong to us. The gov't controls them but we need them back.