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What really made all this possible?

Linux and commodity scale-out hardware made this surveillance possible. The vast majority of politicos have near zero understanding of the technology, capabilities or even have the groundwork to ask the right question.

National Security types are simply exploiting what the technology allows. As are FB, Google, MS, Apple et al.

So Valley, heal thyself first.



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