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Its recursive. What applies to everyone, applies to everyone within the NSA/intelligence community too...as long as they stay staffed with people atleast.

• prostoalex 13y ago
  Don't think it's that recursive. If you run for office, and an embarassing photo or phone call from the past is "leaked" anonymously to ruin your chances, you cannot turn around and leak something on intelligence community.
  • Sven7 13y ago
    If such a system can control a future president, it can also control a future head of the NSA, or whoever else works within the system going down the foodchain, to the point where it becomes too much of a risk to its own existence. Basically, they are not immune from control, if they build a system that knows everything about everything. EDIT: And as for "you cannot turn around and leak something on theintelligence community" you dont have too...future Snowdens and Mannings (who are growing up, fed on all sorts of conspiracies on reddit and other fora) will.
    • etiam 13y ago
      > future Snowdens and Mannings (who are growing up, fed on all sorts of conspiracies on reddit and other fora) will. The future equivalents of Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning could very well be detected and put under control before they have a chance to blow the whistle. It seems in the wake of the Snowden revelations that the NSA is already considering making conformism to authority a more important criterion to be hired, and if they were to use their collected information to profile new hires they should have a really good idea about interests and inclinations.