Re: NSA/GCSB spying shown on NZ television [RANT]
clint barnett wrote: [snip] If you think that you can resist the NSA and win, more power to you, and I'll help if I can, but I don't think you can.However, I strongly believe that you have the power to limit the information they steal from you, and thereby limit the control they have over you. If you can keep your wits about you, act fast when you have to, and run away to fight another day, then you can maybe do some good, but don't make a martyr of yourself or anyone else, because martyrs can't write code, they can't attack or defend a system, they can only lay there and rot in jail or in the ground.
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