[GhotiFish]

Many people can't exercise critical thinking, or will be trusting of what is said, but none the less I am glad this was posted.

I have critical thinking skills, I can asses what is said based on it's merits, and I'm not the only one. So to me this was an interesting (though mildly infuriating) article.

I do believe it's fair to give the opposing position a fair say. In charged issues, it's not uncommon for anything an opposing party said to be labeled as malicious propaganda, while supporting parties hurling emotionally charged insults are propped up as uncompromising paragons of truth.

This should be taken at it's word, this article is telling us that many people in the NSA truly believe that holding this much data on everyone isn't a problem, that there are such devastating threats (such as a BIOS virus who's vector is social engineering). That the meta data is harmless.

Don't call it propaganda, just respond.