Comment by oinksoft
13 years ago
Why not just stand up and cool off? The focus of the story is privacy on the internet, and predictably it gets huge play on this website.
13 years ago
Why not just stand up and cool off? The focus of the story is privacy on the internet, and predictably it gets huge play on this website.
You'd think that the crowd who reads hacker news would understand that the data on Twitter, Facebook, and Google is not their own property.
You are not entitled to outrage over data you freely gave away.
And the NSA has had domestic phone metadata since the 1970's, the only thing different is the speed and scale.
The real focus should be on the guy who gave up state secrets and then defected to China. Did he make some kind of deal? There were a dozen better ways to handle the abuse he perceived at the NSA - he chose what was most convenient for him.
He does not get my respect, and he is certainly not a hero.