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>>benwer+(OP)
Much like the “every device is tapped” heuristic of security, There’s a simple heuristic for data:

If you create data anywhere, assume some govt will eventually get a copy

In reality that data will sit there unreviewed in 99.9999% of cases.

Just hope you’re not in that 0.0001%

>>Andrew+Vw2
> If you create data anywhere, assume some govt will eventually get a copy

I have a hunch that we've been giving these agencies too much credit this whole time

Every time there's an unmitigated act of terror makes me think: the intelligence community is either malicious (a crazy rabbit hole to go down) or incompetent

And also there's the problem of searching, like finding a needle in an ocean

>>testac+Wq3
Or It’s an impossible problem

You can’t win 100% of the time, so you’ll miss some and people will be rightfully mad you missed

You also can’t talk about most wins or - more frequently - events prevented/mitigated

Finally, it only takes a few bad actors in the govt to destroy long term public trust and we’ve had decades of lackluster at best leadership

So add all that up and there’s never going to be positive news about the IC