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Internet Spying Same as Telegram Spying

As usual, Bruce Schneier gets it right:

Bush’s eavesdropping program was explicitly anticipated in 1978, and made illegal by FISA. There might not have been fax machines, or e-mail, or the Internet, but the NSA did the exact same thing with telegrams.
— Project Shamrock, by Bruce Schneier, 29 December 2005

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