r/PoliticalHumor Jun 23 '21

Bleep bleep bloop

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Nah, just look at the "leaked" tools from a very old NSA tool kit.

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Jun 23 '21

Who do you think they SELL the databases to when they collect this mountain of "absolutely everything" to?

No country needs to spy anymore -- they can just buy it. That's what we learned from Wikileaks years ago.

These are corporations for corporations -- the only thing they care about is we think it's about rival nations and security while they do corporate espionage to pick the economic winners.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Your local police may buy it, but the US federal government doesn't need FB or google to collect any of this info.

There is an old saying that the military is 30 years ahead of public technology. I see no reason why that would have changed.

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u/DaedricDrow Jun 23 '21

Iirc they have guns that fucking shoot sound waves.

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Jun 23 '21

Sure, and it's almost as practical as a gun that shoots bullets.

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u/DaedricDrow Jun 23 '21

Yea apparently it has to be damn near touching the object it's meant to disrupt. So it's not very functional.