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I don't really give a damn yet, because I don't even know what PRISM is.

Is PRISM just software for making sense of huge data sets? Is PRISM some system for hacking into web servers and stealing information? Is PRISM just a program where the government can request access to private information on some company's servers?

From reading about it, I don't really buy that it's as bad as many people make it out to be. Have lines been crossed? Yes. Do I know enough about how far we've gone over the lines to be outraged? No.



PRISM itself is an automated way to do what used to be highly-manual before. It's like people complaining about robotic car factories or how we use EFT to direct deposit paychecks instead of handing out paper checks every 2 weeks.




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