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NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata
jfruh writes "NSA Director Keith Alexander, testifying before the Senate this week, got weirdly petulant, asking his critics how he was supposed to do his job without collecting metadata on American communications. 'If we can come up with a better way, we ought to put it on the table and argue our way through it,' he said. 'There is no other way that we know of to connect the dots.' He also implied that major U.S. tech companies might have greater capacities than his organizations, and that they should help him out with new ideas."
I want an Oompah Loompah NOW!
Siri, find all the terrorists in the US.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
From what I've seen, people are either apathetic or support it. As it turns out, people in the "land of the free" don't actually care about freedom all that much.
It's because that by and large the status quo has been awesome for so long that we'd rather have continuity than freedom++.
I know, f-ing Republicans and the tea-party nanny state. I'm doing my part by voting Democrat across the board. Maybe the Dems can turn back the tide with the mid-term and get rid of some of these coddling Republican policies!
God yes, please, we need at least 50 more anecdotes from unsocialized nerds explaining what's really going on in the minds of the general populace
After all, you're indubitably the expert!