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  • FAANGs = Facebook, Amazon, Apple, NVidia, Google - ie the big tech companies - technically it’s kinda out of date because Nvidia isn’t doing much (any ?) creepy shit whereas Palantir are the worst. However the acronym was actually an investing one as short hand for high capital gain tech stocks

    TLAs are “Three Letter Acronyms” - a short hand way of referring to the govt dept’s who tend to use TLAs - CIA, FBI, NSA, MI6, MI5, BND, etc.

    Technically a lot of them are FLA (four letter acronyms) CIA equivalents are CSIS for Canada - ASIO for Australia, DGSE for France and GCHQ is the UK equivalent to NSA for example





  • Using a VPN may subject you to NSA spying.

    NOT using a VPN WILL subject you to NSA spying.

    Might as well make their job harder.

    Edit to add

    Everyone on the internet in any country should assume their local spy squad is spying on them plus the Americans & the Chinese. You’ll rarely be wrong anywhere in the world, and they have a lot of backdoors via network hardware (among other ways).

    You can potentially have privacy from the FAANGS if you are careful. TLAs not so much.