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doktrin on Dec 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Decline of ‘60 Minutes’ Continues With This Week’s...

> "we sort of knew all along they were doing this anyway."

In the wake of the original leaks, reading this particular snippet on FB posted by otherwise intelligent friends was one of my ultimate pet peeves.

It neatly encapsulates both self-affirmation ("oh I totally knew this was going on, because I'm wicked smaht") and a shocking degree of complacency.

mindslight on Dec 16, 2013 [–]

.. Or just disgust at the complacency pre-Snowden and continuing adoption of broken technologies stemming from lack of critical forethought. The centralized data silos of web 2.0 were and are never not going to be used against you.

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