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		swalsh on Feb 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the borde... Another terrifying part of this, is due to the nature of networks, when one of your "friends" becomes compromised, your private message do too. This goes way past national security, and 7 countries. I have former coworkers from Syria, Iran, and Iraq. They're great people, and are great programmers. I friended them on Facebook many years ago, and now when one of them is caught at a border it's not just their private messages being raided... its my own anti-trump messages. This needs to stop here.

blubb-fish on Feb 12, 2017 [–]

first of all stop using FB for communication

Scea91 on Feb 15, 2017 | | [–]

The problem is that you usually have to use what your circle uses too. Sadly, in my circle it is FB.

euyyn on Feb 13, 2017 | | [–]

Anyone should be free to use whatever service is most convenient to them for communication.

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