Before Snowden, I might have dismissed your post as simple paranoia. But now, to steal a few words from 'jasoncchild', it just might be "damned clever". All of

Before Snowden, I might have dismissed your post as simple paranoia. But now, to steal a few words from 'jasoncchild', it just might be "damned clever". All of which means that right now there are probably guys posting in an HN discussion thread on NSA's private comment site. They're saying something like: it's only clever because he's not a spook ... we've been doing this for the last decade. :)