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		M2Ys4U on Aug 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back th... >However, the average citizen is not a target of the NSA. The average citizen is exactly the target of the NSA. Their goal is to own everybody and then figure out what to do afterwards.

TallGuyShort on Aug 5, 2015 [–]

Owning everyone is the very opposite of the definition of a targeted attack. My point is not allowing your data to be collected en masse is a reasonable precaution against mass surveillance.

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