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Charl Botha

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Welcome everyone to 2026 and also welcome to this, the traditional yearly transition blog post , in which I ramble a bit about what happened in the past year and what I would like to happen in the coming year.

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Dear USA, my data has left your building

NSA, GCHQ, Prism, FISA, Project Bullrun, Sigint. After Edward Snowden, former CIA and NSA employee, started revealing how massively, intensely and easily we are all being spied upon by the intelligence agencies of various governments, the terms above have suddenly been spending a great deal more time in the media…