Hi cm,
Well, that was a charming reply but I'm still goddam irritated with your posts inside the bubble.
In those posts, you took the issue to the low level you now abhor.
Your posts on the issue of NSA back doors have been insulting to those with whom you disagree. Those who see a surveillance state are paranoid. Snowden is Abominable etc. (Yeah, I got the wit in the pun but it conceals a put-down of those who think otherwise). And really your argument is empty of substance. The whole thing is you saying anyone who believes something different from you is a wingnutty,extremist fool.
Guess what. It doesn't go down well.
The information about NSA programmes and the insertion of backdoors is extremely well documented. So much so that it is not in any doubt. No one has said there aren't also IA departments in NSA. Just that there are spooks subverting security for the whole world.
The NSA clearly has a programme to undermine systems that challenge their ability to view whatever the heck they like. For those who care, this is an affront to everyone's privacy.
Privacy is not anti-government. RS can be as anarcho-crazy as he likes. But privacy is something people have been permitted since mankind invented walls. It is a normal expectation of liberty everywhere (inside and outside the us) that a person is not subject to surveillance unless the government has reasonable and robust grounds for suspicion.
You can argue that the need for privacy is defeated by the want of security. But it is insulting to presume the defence of privacy is an extreme position. It is, in fact, a centrist, conservative (in the traditional sense) and liberal one.
So the NSA can actually be trespassing against social norms without its opponents needing to be extreme. That is what it is doing. In the worst ways possible. This is what Snowden revealed. He's a classic whistlebower.
But so as to deliver your invective you are painting the proponents of privacy as extreme. Snowden included.
That's the general point.
Specifically, you have to be beyond naive to think the arm of the NSA which inserts back doors is not attempting or has not already succeeded in doing the same somewhere along the TC supply chain.
So the question isn't "are they?" It's have they succeeded yet.
For some time I see your posts moving towards an extreme patriotic, almost neocon view of the world. Funny, as you were the first person I read who talked about them. Disparagingly at the time.
But now it seems the US is good. Everyone else not so much. I don't deny your right to hold the views you do. But you move towards propaganda when you caracature the positions of those with whom you disagree.
It was the neocons who justified everything by recourse to the risk of terror.
Invasion, because terror.
Gitmo, because terror.
Torture, because terror.
Drones, because terror.
So now even users of the network are adversaries. Because terror.
Is this your opinion? Seems that way to me. Pro-NSA to the point that you deny the reality of its activities. Stockholm Syndrome?
I don't know who told you about my post. I am happy they did so. It was intended to attract your attention. I remain committed to a TC that is robust and secure. For users. In order to recover some level of privacy if at all possible.
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