The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
Honestly, I don't really care.  The NSA can read whatever they want of mine.  I've heard the arguments about how you should care, even if you don't have anything to hide.  And I find them persuasive on one level and simultaneously unengaging on another.  By contrast, the parallels to fascist Italy and Nazi Germany and living in a turnkey fascist state are most unpersuasive.<p>The one argument against what I've written that has been made that I think is worthy of highlighting is that there are people around the world who are risking their lives under totalitarian regimes.  People's smug responses and ad hominem detract from this important point, which could be helpful to others outside of HN in better understanding the issue.<p>Your downvotes will not persuade me or anyone else with my views.  They do demonstrate that some are committed partisans on this issue.  I appreciate some of the clear, unemotional arguments that have been made, however.