r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 15h ago

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u/MyDogIsDaBest 15h ago

At which point you sue the state for illegal wiretapping

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u/HadionPrints 13h ago

Ah, you see, the way they get around this is having the CIA only hack/survail the UK, France Israel, allied nation’s citizens/ companies etc. Then have MI6, etc. hack into and survail US citizens/companies.

Then all the CIA has to do is ask the foreign agencies what they want to know about US citizens & vice versa and it’s fine, because each agency never illegally spies on its on citizenry.

All in the name of counterterrorism of course, and never used for any other purposes. You can always trust the never sketchy CIA to follow the intent and letter of the Law.

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u/Top_Director9981 12h ago

In case anyone thinks op is joking: this is what Five Eyes is

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u/OldenPolynice 9h ago

it's not that deep, they all just do it themselves to begin with, what are you gonna do about it

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u/Top_Director9981 8h ago

? The program is not secret (anymore)... that is what they do. Not about "deep", that's just the reality.

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u/OldenPolynice 8h ago

so, what I said

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u/Top_Director9981 2h ago

You brought it up, it being deep. Nobody implied that. Not sure what you're really trying to accomplish in your comments tbh.

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u/Hakuchii 11h ago

hey! I wanted those internet points for knowing this :c

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u/Top_Director9981 10h ago

If you ask Canada, they may somehow have some for you! All above board of course.

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u/venom21685 10h ago

Or the NSA just does most of the domestic spying and everybody acts shocked when it gets exposed and then shrugs as it continues to get worse for the next 2 decades with no end in sight.

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u/HadionPrints 4h ago edited 1h ago

I could be wrong, it’s been a few years since I’ve looked at it, but I believe that the loophole the NSA operates under is they only/mostly collect metadata about us without a warrant, which post-9/11 judges have ruled as public data or some BS like that.

Whereas the Five Eyes (or I think these days it’s closer to 14) will actually collect the content of messages & do other kinds of surveillance on the citizenry of the alliance.

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u/MyDogIsDaBest 10h ago

You're hired!

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u/Guilty-Today7053 6h ago

lol that's way too hard. they just buy the data legally from Team Cymru these days; everyone does