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Happened with the NSA, it's appropriately called, "LOVEINT": https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24/loveint-when-nsa-officers-use-their-s

by GVIrish 11y ago

Happened with the NSA, it's appropriately called, "LOVEINT": https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24/loveint-when-nsa-officers-use-their-spying-power-on-love-interests/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24... Note that most of the instances that the NSA 'found" were self-reported.

ktRolster 11y ago
It's actually amazing to me how fast the abuses happened, and how many of them. I figured it would be a typical program, starting out with good intentions, but slowly deteriorating as people who care are replaced. But no, any capability they were given was abused almost immediately.
- AnimalMuppet 11y ago
  It's not whether the people care. It's whether they're willing to abuse power. And the people the program started with are just as likely to be willing to abuse power as the ones who replace them are.