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Can anyone explain to me why stories like this are on HN?


There's the "of interest" clause. But more specifically, we talk a lot here about telecom and internet surveillance. It's good to raise up your head once in awhile and recognize that technical acts are not done for themselves, they're done for a larger goal.

All of these breaches we talk about here by the US and other governments are much more than offenses against technology, they resolve up the tree to support policy. To support kidnapping, torture and murder.

It's not just bits, it's blood.


But that's not the subject of this article.




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