flata points out that some people lost their heads because the all-knowing government spy agency, the NSA,
put cookies on people's computersA "privacy advocate" named Daniel Brandt is upset about this, and has previously been upset about the CIA using persistent cookies on their public website
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Now on top of everything else, they're blocking my access to livejournal.com. Some spook is giving me an 'access denied' message whenever I try to access it.
.... Either that, or I've borked my squidGuard whitelists. Personally, I'd rather just blame the NSA.
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These guys are nerds. They break codes, they make codes, and everything else is a variation on that or office support. It's math, people!
Now, granted, they're seven times larger than the CIA, and this might make us a bit suspicious, but if you're worried about domestic spying, the NSA is not the first place you look. The NSA does not spy on American citizens. They've really got bigger fish to fry.
The FBI, on the other hand . . . they're much more likely to be interested in your cookies.
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