The Migration Away from Big Social May Be the Beginning of Something Better(cheapskatesguide.org)
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The Migration Away from Big Social May Be the Beginning of Something Better
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During the 1990s there were persistent rumors that the NSA captured all of Usenet. The NSA had a presence on the Internet - look up Dockmaster.
Given what we know today, the NSA was almost certainly monitoring email as much as they could.