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Snowden showed us that the 5-eyes countries are actively producing and marketing - in their own secret organizations with secret, anti-democratic agreements - massive-scale spy and intrusion technologies. Anti-democratic, freedom-defeating agreements for the purpose of total information control over human civilization.

Massive-scale, actually: full-spectrum.

There are no aspects of modern technology infrastructure that are off the table in these realms: all systems are targets. Planet-wide.

So, its not just that the NSA will be reprogramming firmware or putting key sniffers in your macbook or writing 0-day exploits. Its that they'll listen to everything, anywhere along the wire, as they see fit.




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