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There is an old saying in the engineering world: “Regulations are written in blood.


They had an immense amount of blood on tap to utilize when they penned out the PATRIOT Act and I think the results speak for themselves.

I know your comment was likely made as a knee jerk reaction to the above comment but I implore the reader to actually consider the process and incentives by which rules and regulations are created and how an assumption of good faith negatively affects the rules and laws we get.




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