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		mjwalshe on March 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Cent... This is the same naive view that "gentlemen do not read each others mail" that post WW1 led to US crypto being sidelined. Maybe if the USA hand not been so isolationist and put more into crypto Perl Harbour would have been very different.

glesica on March 16, 2012 [–]

Was Pearl Harbor really that bad? I mean in the grand scheme of things. Which would be preferable, preventing another Pearl Harbor or preserving liberty?

I'll take liberty every single time because otherwise there's nothing worth defending.

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