On Thu, July 19, 2018 10:57, Valeri Galtsev wrote:

<rant> . . . you don't need to recruit spies anymore, just roll out "free" services, and information will trickle to you. I am old enough to know what collection of information on everybody leads to (Hitler Germany, Stalin Russia, ...), but I also know that the worst lesson of history is: people do not learn lessons of history. . . </rant>

History is the practice of justifying the present by rewriting the past.