Posted on 10/21/2013 3:14:26 AM PDT by markomalley
>> I would want terrorists to believe every phone conversation Is being listened to and recorded
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> I wouldnt.
Nor would I; it was bad enough in Iraq where they’d swap out SIM cards... now imagine a widespread collection of “terrorists” who, believing all electronic comms are tracked, must find a way to communicate. They’re going to come up with some wonderfully creative stuff, just as you and I would be forced to do if that same surveillance were turned on us (surprise, it is) — if the state of general-surveillance is not stopped, government will become all-knowing, and the petty bureaucrats will turn their attention to you and *finding* [perhaps inventing] faults to prosecute.
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