A dragnet of the civilian population kept in perpetuity and allowing a dossier of everyone to be conjured up with a query is obviously not primarily for stoppin

A dragnet of the civilian population kept in perpetuity and allowing a dossier of everyone to be conjured up with a query is obviously not primarily for stopping terrorism. Who would fall for that really? (The target seems more aligned to tax enquiries for a start...) 9/11 was enabled by box cutters - the message was that this was super low tech and you often can't stop the most awful terrorism if people are really determined and feel they have nothing to lose. The good news for you is that news events are by definition rare and there's actually so little terrorism (in the west at least) - that's because there's not nearly as much motivation to commit these acts as many seem to believe, not because of robocops peering into your drawers.