“If you're watching everybody, you're watching nobody.”

—  John Gilmore

As quoted in Subject: <nowiki>[IP http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200303/msg00427.html</nowiki> John Gilmore on government trustworthiness and spy gear]

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