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I'm pessimistic, half of america is already fine with opening their iPhone to the Gov. So a traitor who has done something so altruistic that it's impossible for the majority to accept it for what it really is and above all who lives in Russia with their historical nemesys, there is no way there is a chance one day for him to be understood by the masses, I'm afraid.

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Things change. No one expected Mandela to become President when he got arrested.

Let's just wait for the next major data breach or data leak.

Just look at whats going on with Bangladesh's central bank. If they can't protect their data, hard to imagine the rest of the developing world being in a better of position.

Accumulators of data in the west, sitting in ivory towers, disconnected from ground realities, are setting all kinds of precedents just waiting to breakdown elsewhere.

So, we might have President Snowden to look forward to? Has a decent ring to it.

He's got my vote. I ignore the texts from Bernie, but I'd walk door-to-door through a snowstorm canvassing for that guy.

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