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[โ€“] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Us paranoid tried to warn everyone back in the early 2000s ๐Ÿซฉ

[โ€“] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

George Orwell warned us back in 1948.

[โ€“] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're not wrong but more to the point I was trying to make is that the actual technology existed around that time, we started to see people abuse it, we warned others, snowden dropped documents on the NSAs effort and large datacenters and not many people batted an eye.

[โ€“] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yes. I remember the data center the NSA built. I took notice.

[โ€“] one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I remember watching Enemy of the State with Will Smith in 1998. That movie was so fucking ridiculous with cameras everywhere. Oh...