Doesn’t matter which you use, the NSA has everything anyway.
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Basically once in the atmosphere it’s there for the taking.
Out of all the alphabet soup problems, the NSA shows the least signs of being corrupt, in my opinion. I still want to believe that they have our back. Their overall goal is our security, not being political. They have even resisted inter-agency requests for private information from what I have seen before.
If we ever lose the NSA, stick a fork in ‘America’.
But yes, you are right, they grab data at the hardware level. They pretty much do have everything. I don’t think it pertains to the concerns of this topic though, which is not supporting politically activist tech giants.