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Just to play devil's advocate, we don't know how many crimes have been stopped with these systems in place. It's entirely possible that it has foiled terrorist
by nexuist 7y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, we don't know how many crimes have been stopped with these systems in place. It's entirely possible that it has foiled terrorist attacks in the past. Making it public (supposedly) would allow other people to figure out how to avoid it and reduce its effectiveness.
Of course the alternative theory that it's there for control and manipulation is more likely.
- jimbob45 7y agoConsider high school shootings alone. They've spiked since the NSA started their program in 2005. By your hypothesis, we're not seeing these invisibly stopped school shootings, which must be on an order of magnitude higher than what we're seeing to account for the spike since 2005. Either that or the NSA just isn't doing anything to stop these shootings. We may never know.