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I agree with the first sentence. I cannot even begin to comprehend what semantics you were trying to convey with the second sentence however. I am also lacking all context to be able to understand (compromised in what sense, by whom and to what degree? which border? what is "fuckery" defined as?).

I appreciate you trying to add to the discussion but in this case you leave me with way more questions than I started out with which I personally perceive as an unwanted mental overhead.



Sorry I don't check HN very often these days.

What I mean is by watching the IPs, I see a lot of cross-border ingress/egress when it shouldn't be necessary. It's not proof, but an indicator of probability to me, that echelon style mechanisms are being used.

If you are unaware of echelon and related programs, essentially, since it's illegal for the US (officially at least) to spy on it's own citizens without a warrant, instead they let an "ally" country like the UK spy on Americans and then "share the data", essentially another abuse of third party doctrine.

I hope that helps clarify.




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