@peter.benjamin

[thwipandrelease]

So I know I can't be the only one who's had the unexpected pleasure of coming into possession of messages that aren't intended for my consumption. I'm not talking about you getting someone's private love letters or metaphorical cat video links, which I've gotten and deleted.

If I were back home, I'd be sliding this info to my nearest and dearest investigative journalist type. Since I'm not, well, I guess I've got to take matters in my own hands.

It's an interesting read, so, I'm just going to include the unedited details for all.

[what follows is a copy of the message that peter had received earlier, sent from lydia gill-jade, which seems the sort of thing that would come up in a current headlines search if it weren't presumably a secret. well, so much for that, huh?]

Maybe it's just me, but do people usually name successors for campaign donations?

Comments

[personalwar]

For all we know it's become so widespread that the public practically expects it.

But it rubs me the wrong way that we have no feasible way to do anything outside of the government's view. This might be a message from Vyonation, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're selling it all to the highest bidder.

[transuniversal]

I would be able to circumvent the surveillance state if I hadn't been nerfed. Or if I could recover some of my gear. But five hundred years ago there was a saying. Something about fish?

[ "IF wishes were fishes", and they've all got plenty. ]

It could be both. Or some combination. It is not necessarily of government interest why you did not buy one toothpaste over another, but it would be useful to track certain patterns and correlations.

[personalwar]

Circumvent it? How?

And I think we both know they're tracking a lot more than just buying habits, so yeah, I'm guessing at least some of it is going to be of interest to the UNA.