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Galraedia

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Thu Jun 20, 2013, 11:38 PM Jun 2013

Cyber Warfare Beats The Other Kind

OK, enough. Here’s the thing: The good news is that the most dramatic “revelations” in the Snowden-Greenwald stories turn out upon further review to be somewhere between greatly exaggerated and entirely false.

Yes, NSA vacuums up telephone “metadata” and sifts it for suspicious patterns. USA Today revealed that in 2006. There was a big political fight about it, which the libertarian side lost. But no, they aren’t listening to your calls, and when the histrionic Mr. Snowden says he could have eavesdropped on anybody in the USA, he leaves out that doing so would have landed him in federal prison, where he probably belongs. ~ excerpt

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Cyber Warfare Beats The Other Kind (Original Post) Galraedia Jun 2013 OP
Assuming real war has an inverse relationship to cyberwar NoOneMan Jun 2013 #1
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