> Bruce Schneier fails to recognize the critical role security theater plays in keeping people safe. Understanding that it is theater is enough. You realise no

> Bruce Schneier fails to recognize the critical role security theater plays in keeping people safe. Understanding that it is theater is enough. You realise nobody needed to prove the emperor had no clothes. > What does the UK's hundreds-year old behavior regarding spying have to do with the NSA today? Well you brought it up yourself when you said: > Also, what makes you think the UK hasn't had a global intelligence network since its inception? My point was simply that it would be inane to assume that any organisation is required to stay around forever, purely by dint of it existing today - let alone one that is giving every indication of careening out of control. Plenty of people are already calling for Clapper to face consequences.