> we're more likely to find out about it, so we can do something about it. How does that help? For me the lesson of the Snowden affair has been that it does no

> we're more likely to find out about it, so we can do something about it. How does that help? For me the lesson of the Snowden affair has been that it does not matter whether we know what the government is up to, because they will do what they want to us regardless; there is nothing we can do about it.