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Ah you mean reading communications of the opposition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Public_disclosures_(1972%E2%80%932000) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by maqp 6y ago
Ah you mean reading communications of the opposition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Public_disclosures_(1972%E2%80%932000) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Public_disclosures_(19... discusses it:
'Congressional investigators determined that "targeting of US political figures would not occur by accident, but was designed into the system from the start."'
So yeah that might still be going on. Signal etc. make it harder but it's not like the NSA isn't hacking endpoints so hard to say if it's actually secure. We can only hope the next Snowden will let us know if NSA's spying on the opposing political party.
- pvg 6y agoI don't mean that, I'm just pretty sure the person you are replying to meant that. As to the other stuff, no, even if your security services are collecting this sort of thing, by design or not, it doesn't mean it's in your daily briefing, let alone available to your campaign. If it was, Nixon wouldn't have needed to hire a bunch of incompetent cosplayers to be 'Plumbers'.