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How Tech Vendors Help Governments Spy On Their Citizens

Posted by Soulskill on from the let-me-count-the-ways dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Most Slashdotters — even those living in democratic countries — would probably be unsurprised to know that their governments are spying on them. But most people are not aware of how complicit security vendors, who publicly work to protect the public from such electronic eavesdropping, are complicit in such monitoring. All this and more is revealed in the latest Wikieaks document dump, the Spy Files."

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  1. Re:Ok. analyze THIS. by masternerdguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh come on, the fact your government has all your phone calls on file and knows every website you've ever visited is so shockingly predictable it doesn't even need to be leaked.

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  2. Re:Turnabout is Fair Play by masternerdguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could threaten to mod him down, if he's a karma whore he'll flip out.

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  3. Re:And by the way by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm pretty sure they're convinced that they're spying on their enemy.

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