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RE: I am not a fan of absolutes... They can make me a little nuts... some of you may think I'm always nuts. ;) [NSA Captures Every Phone Call]
So do you feel like that limited and incomplete spying is a good thing to spend money and effort on on or a bad thing?
A bad thing. These types of things mostly catch the regular people. If you know such things exist and you want to circumvent them there are always ways. So a criminal could use some hefty encryption, VPN, etc. So the people most targeted by this type of process are ordinary people. I am not a fan.
I personally believe banning rarely fixes anything, it just makes a black market for criminals and the people that are going to commit a crime will ignore any such bans anyway. So the majority of people impacted by bans are non-criminals.
I believe the same type of results occur from this type of surveillance.
EDIT: To correct usage of absolutes.
I'm always surprised they never use this "data" for any crimes that occur. I would think they would be able to get any info they wanted, but they never seem to have it when needed.
Yeah things like this mostly seem to come up when they are coming after someone rather ordinary. The people it should impact it doesn't seem to touch. There is a definite double standard.
It's similar to the cameras everywhere that never have photos when needed. I think it's just another way to steal money.
If you ever needed a good example of that all you need to consider is the Las Vegas Shooting and how those Casinos suddenly became video black holes. Or you could go back to 9/11 and note how that heavily videoed building had trouble producing videos and how they took all the videos from cameras of businesses near there.
That speaks very loud. They can say "there is no conspiracy", but that one fact alone is a loud shout that there is.
I so agree. And we always get blurry cell phone clips from these fake events. Not even my fb friends fall for them now. It's like a big shrug.
LV was supposed to be "the biggest mass casualty event blah, blah, blah." There should have been weeks of funeral coverage, but no - nothing.