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		bombcar 78 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The email they shouldn't have read Anything that might be monitored should have EVERYTHING named variables that trigger the monitoring. Like the old NSA copypasta.

fragmede 78 days ago [–]

So my one-letter variable names are a form of defensive programming?

bombcar 78 days ago | [–]

They are, but I’m saying go to the other extreme, where every variable triggers their sensors and floods them with useless data until they give up monitoring.

fragmede 77 days ago | | [–]

int *nsa_spy_data_buffer

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