[coherentpony]

>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.

[prollyignored]

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