Here is a seemingly innocuous little question for you all: Now that PRISM's cover has been "blown" - what sort of personality type do you think will be most at

Here is a seemingly innocuous little question for you all: Now that PRISM's cover has been "blown" - what sort of personality type do you think will be most attracted by the prospect of getting a job at the NSA? Might I suggest that a career with the NSA has suddenly become a compelling and attractive alternative for all those creeps that find idea of power without responsibility positively intoxicating. Indeed, I suspect that the recruiters and security screening personnel are (as we speak) busy filtering out anybody who might leak - i.e. all those candidates who actually posses a conscience - making it much more likely that over time the NSA & it's sister organizations will become increasingly sadistic and power-hungry in their institutional cultures. Regretfully, this seems like a foregone conclusion, given that the present public attention to the issue is not making a jot of difference to how the security services operate. Indeed, they are as clearly unmoved by public opinion as their operations are (effectively) beyond the reach of the law. As a result, we should not only consider the consequences of this untrammeled power-grab by the security services as a potential worst-case threat:- We should positively expect this threat to materialize. In addition to this expectation of malicious intent, we should also expect the technological advantage that the security services have over the general population to increase over time. The "internet of things" is coming, and it will not be too long before disposable "smart" sensors can be mass produced, making the surveillance state truly ubiquitous. The tele-screens of Orwell's 1984 already seem quaint in comparison to the surveillance capabilities enabled by the ubiquitous smart-phone. How much more in thrall to the authorities will we be when sub-millimeter scale sensors can be purchased by the thousands-to-the-dollar, and scattered almost invisibly across the urban environment; maybe even in the food supply - certainly embedded in fitness and health-insurance tracking applications. Orwell had his vision of a "boot stamping down on a human face - forever" - my fear is based on a vision that is a little different - given our increasingly intimate relationship with technology - a vision of the latex-clad hands of the state -- violently engaged in the mass rectal exam of the human race -- forever." Remember - if Nixon got into power under the full glare of public scrutiny - just think of the personality types that proliferate in the shadows.