Max Ehrenfreund makes a good point that the people, through their representatives, have twice rejected the kind of decryption activities the NSA has been conducting, and they just went ahead and did them anyway.
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But Snowden is a lover of Crazy Uncle Liberty!! And Greenwald is a smarmy asshole!!
Because what NSA did was force manufacturers and internet services to put backdoors into hardware, firmware, and software, and the fact that NSA is an agency in the Department of the Defense, someone has pointed out that what NSA did is the cyber equivalent of violating the Third Amendment to the Constitution. That’s an amendment we had gotten to feel very secure about.
Same as it ever was. Scroll down to page 623.
No doubt I was late to the party at the time, but probably one of the biggest revolutionary (in a bad way) developments of the W Bush administration that occurred to me was how they proved that once the crimes and misdemeanors got high enough, you can break the law and disregard the Constitution openly and get away with it, because either there’s nobody with enough authority to enforce the law, or because the authorities charged with enforcing the law are the people breaking it. The NSA do as they please, because who’s going to stop them?