* Posts by mtnbkr

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Marc Andreessen: Edward Snowden is a 'textbook traitor'

mtnbkr

Re: RE: Who didn't know what the NSA was doing?

Okay - you may have a point in there...at least, a partial point. Here's why I say that:

"Nothing these companies hold is likely to hurt you"

The big Credit Reporting Trio has info that CAN hurt you, agreed? No mortgage, no car loan, etc. How'd they gather that, do you suppose?

"No-one expects to be spied by the State on just because they exist - no cause, no reason, no justification. Basically, to equate the two is specious in the extreme."

Specious? How? Can you please provide a documented case that whatever data NSA has was used improperly? Sure, that they gathered it at all is scary...but how was it USED?

mtnbkr

RE: Who didn't know what the NSA was doing?

It isn't JUST the NSA - every other nation is doing similar things, to the degree that they can. As long as the data that's being gathered isn't being used nefariously, who cares?

And Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon et al are doing the SAME THING, at a commercial level.

So is General Motors, Ford, Mercedes Benz, etc etc etc.

Not that it isn't ANNOYING :-)...

mtnbkr
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I admit - I agree with Marc!

Who <b>didn't</b> know what the NSA was doing?