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The problem of child molesters is a fixed quantity. The loss of privacy is ever increasing. When you see this dynamic, you know that a con is afoot.

The solution for child porn isn’t found in snooping on everyone. It is in infiltrating the networks. Go have the FBI infiltrate the rings. Here is an example of why the FBI is disingenuous. This child porn ring wasn’t using phones. Guess what they were using?

https://abc7.com/archive/7844451/

Computers in public libraries

Like I said, sophisticated actors aren’t the targets.

Another example. Osama bin Laden. He was air gapped. No cell phones or computers for him. No one even calling on a phone nearby. Osama bin Laden was found via an informant.

The next actor will be even more sophisticated. Probably single use dumb paired cell phones with call locations randomized. Probably plastic surgery. Locations that spy satellites cannot see.

Did snooping on cell phone data help find Osama? When that wasn’t enough, did grabbing all online data help? How about grabbing data straight from smart phones? Nope. Nope. Nope. Yet governments want more, more, more. Why do you think snooping helps against people who don’t even use phones for their most private communications?




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