> if you've managed to attract the all-seeing eye [...] But I guess that governments expect large-scale surveillance to be the primary way to attract the all-s

> if you've managed to attract the all-seeing eye [...] But I guess that governments expect large-scale surveillance to be the primary way to attract the all-seeing eye. National security was done a certain way during the cold war, when facing highly organized intelligence services. The swarms of nutjobs, loosely herd by amorphous terrorist organizations, are much harder to detect; many people probably have high hopes about big data and statistical methods to find them.