The government and business have built a state of surveillance far beyond anything dreamt of a couple of decades ago, with massive continuing investment. Yet t

The government and business have built a state of surveillance far beyond anything dreamt of a couple of decades ago, with massive continuing investment. Yet the tool of surveillance was unable to stop this attack. Now they want more surveillance, but maybe it's the wrong tool for this job. Surveillance seems to have reached that place on the technology adoption curve where people get a little over-enthusiastic and blindly think it solves every problem, and they haven't yet realized it's a tool which, like all tools, is good for for things but not for others. (That ignores the massive cost to individuals and to our societies of surveillance.)