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    "title": "Centralized Services Make It Easier To Spy",
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    "html": "<p>With Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and various \"cloud\" services, the strength is in the efficiencies of scale.  The weakness is that they are centralized; if government wishes to spy, they need only deal with a small number of large corporate entities to do so.  If these services were distributed, efficiencies would drop, but the effort needed to spy would rise.</p>\n"
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