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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 09:59:28 EST Bob Mottram
   What About The Rights of the Next Generation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcukVYGm5mg
   1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 10:05:26 EST Bob Mottram

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      The unopened letter in transit is obviously false. There's a lot of evidence that in previous times some percentage of letters were opened and read or copied. There were special devices for doing that, and departments of employees doing it full time. The only thing is that the reading of letters didn't scale, so that only affected the snail mail of people who were of special interest to the government.
      1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 11:11:46 EST Annah

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         @bob It used to be trivial to put a letter on a light table and use a device that can use the relative darkness of writing to seperate the writing into layers (I forget what this is called but I remember it exists from my time in forensics.)  This is actually why security envelopes were developed, they are pretty effective against this tool, though we've since developed new ones (and laws that basically make it A-OK for LEAs to open the post on a whim anyways.)