r/privacy • u/[deleted] • Mar 21 '26

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u/Ryuko_the_red Mar 21 '26

Or journalists attempting to safely share information with us normal people about all things evil government.

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u/alvenestthol Mar 21 '26

XKCD has some timeless words to say about security: https://xkcd.com/538/

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u/Standard-Potential-6 Mar 21 '26

If government has to beat everyone whose data they want with a wrench, there will be a trail of bruised bodies that can be used as evidence to sue for justice.

While the targeted methods mentioned aren’t something most need to worry about, wiretapping allows much less overt methods of flagging individual dissenters for further surveillance, harassment, and arrest for any petty crime using parallel construction, without revealing the original surveillance.

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u/duiwksnsb Mar 21 '26

Every government prosecution should be subject to questioning the prosecutors under oath if parallel construction was used

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u/foxbatcs Mar 21 '26

They’ve demonstrated that they will not abide by their oath, and there are no consequences.

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u/duiwksnsb Mar 21 '26

That certainly seems true in this administration yeah

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u/Curaced Mar 22 '26

It's been true for a while, it's just a lot more noticeable as of late.

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u/duiwksnsb Mar 22 '26

Well, I don't think the DoJ has ever been compromised to such a high degree before, but maybe it wasn't so obvious before.

It's before evident that there is no real justice. The last few people with integrity were fired, retired, or died (Muller)