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Originally Posted by cybmole
well there's paranoia, and then there's uber-paranoia.
when was the last time a federal agency inspected your storage medium, or that of any of your friends ?
don't they have better things to do, like catching terrorists ???
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It doesn't matter.
They also did not searched (apart for a few, statistically irrelevant) computers for forbidden software that removes DRM, either.
But, think that in 1960 it sufficed to go to the desk and ask for a flight ticket. You needed 5 minutes from airport entry to passing through the corresponding gate (plus the queue time). Now one needs 2 hours (not all of them are used, but there have been cases where 2 h were just about).
It's not paranoia, it's not überparanoia.
The systems will always be forced to their limits. The authorities are given more and more powers (and more and more shortcuts) claiming they fight your examples while the access of the pure, genuine citizen to justice became more and more difficult.
Only the lack of personnel can prevent an authority to pretext a complaint, for whatever reason, keep you under lock for the time prescribed, while they do what they want at your home, then release you, and you haven't even access to a judge or defender (remember those shortcuts?). As blacklisted, surely your career will be stopped, your life ruined. Well, it hasn't happened to you yet, but nothing prevent it from being, strictly theoretically speaking, possible, because
the "game rules" exist.