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Have you ever tried to intercept some one else's snail mail (or even your own wrongly delivered)? Its a lot of work if you don't have an insider at the post off
by jerven 11y ago
Have you ever tried to intercept some one else's snail mail (or even your own wrongly delivered)? Its a lot of work if you don't have an insider at the post office. Requiring major time investments, to visit mail boxes or collect mail. E-mail even encrypted is much easier to permanently monitor than basic post, even for state level actors.
Opening an envelope is easy, doing so without being detected day in day out is hard.
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- veddox 11y agoThe (East) Germans managed - the Stasi (East German secret police) did so for years on end with any number of suspected citizens. Actually there was a joke going around here in Germany when the NSA scandal broke, talking about how jealous all the ex-Stasi guys must be that the NSA had beaten them at their own surveillance game...
- digi_owl 11y agoI keep having the feeling that the west only stayed somewhat sane by having the eastern block as a comparison.