[aurelius]

I never said anything about leaving our systems insecure. It's in the best interests of America to use security technologies to protect our national infrastructure. We should always be trying to make our country more secure.

We should also be glad that NSA is able to find ways to catch people who abuse these security technologies to hurt our country.

If you're using cryptographic and anonymizing technologies for legitimate and legal purposes, then you should rest easy knowing that NSA is putting the smack down on the abusers. If you're using those technologies for illegal, subversive, or anti-American things, then you should be worried. I hear Federal prison isn't fun.

Look, you're still free to disagree with what the government does and work to change it in legitimate and legal ways. That's what makes America great. That's what NSA is working to protect.

IMHO, it sounds like you should've stayed in Russia.

[sarciszewski]

> If you're using cryptographic and anonymizing technologies for legitimate and legal purposes, then you should rest easy knowing that NSA is putting the smack down on the abusers.

I would rest easy if I knew the attacks they leverage against legitimate and legal users were not effective, so that people with criminal intentions would have a lower success rate.

[dang]

> it sounds like you should've stayed in Russia.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.

[twoodfin]

C'mon. If the condescension of "Silly me, should have stayed in Russia" is kosher, so should be "Yeah, sounds like you should have."

I'd prefer neither, but you made a point of calling out the latter.