What an awful take.

what was the take?

There is an option in your profile called “showdead”. You should be able to read the comment after updating that option to be affirmative.

Should have just kept it off.

I love reading the controversial things. Admittedly, it’s very commonly low quality like OP in this thread but sometimes you get good if unpopular arguments. The challenge to my worldview is a utility that’s difficult to replace.

This is a genuine question, I am curious as to what drives men such as you to such comments.

It doesn't take much outlandish theorizing to wonder who might be interested in character assassination of people challenging surveillance

I doubt it’s connected but would be fascinating if true.

Because they're so bad it would need a global system of total surveillance to catch them? Sure.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11872642

^ that is what that is. Or, in more detail: https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/mast...

You can't connect real things like these documents with slander by people who do nothing to step on the toes of the NSA. That is all that the BS about Assange or Appelbaum being a sex menace or Snowden being a Russian asset is. "Oh noes, they're a threat to the work we're not doing". Nobody is asking you to get drinks with Assange or Appelbaum. They don't want to be your friend. It's okay if you don't like them, for whatever personal reasons (and choosing to fall for this crap falls under personal reasons). It's not okay to be part of a mob that murders people by throwing a pebble each with this plausible deniability, in this "genuinely curious" just wondering kind of way. Enough is enough.

It certainly isn't fascinating. 3 letter agencies are torturing and murdering people, and having nothing better to do than gossip about gossip about messengers is just vulgar, boring, infantile cowardice, puffed up with not even clever words.