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ceejayozyesterday at 11:00 PM1 replyview on HN

There are other big differences in the other direction, though. The Stasi couldn't have dreamed of the manpower efficiency of modern surveillance.


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lukanyesterday at 11:34 PM

On the other hand, they had on average someone in every appartment block and every company directly reporting to them and doing on request other things. The human touch of spycraft. Nowdays spying on the population is automated.