> People who do not understand technology seem to treat technology as a magic bullet that can be adapted to implement policy Pretending you need experts in 'te

> People who do not understand technology seem to treat technology as a magic bullet that can be adapted to implement policy Pretending you need experts in 'technology' to do anything that ever comes in the same room as a computer enforces this view, it doesn't change it. Policy should be written in such a way that it is abstracted from the implementation detail. To the point, it shouldn't matter if I am talking on the phone, writing a letter or IM'ing someone over the internet, the NSA should have to hit the same requirements to look at it. > completely ignores the fact that it is technically impossible to do what he would like. Yet he continues to demand it anyway "Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots." He has been told, many times, by 'technologists' that what he want's can't really be done. It doesn't seem to matter now, does it.