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It should be extremely clear: the NSA should be expected - and I don't know of anyone outside of anarchist circles who doesn't expect - to have extremely sophis
by pnathan 12y ago
It should be extremely clear: the NSA should be expected - and I don't know of anyone outside of anarchist circles who doesn't expect - to have extremely sophisticated targeting operations for espionage.
While I fully support limiting the mass surveillance, stopping the NSL practice, and indiscriminate data collection being performed (along with other Star Chamber-esque behaviors), it is pure folly to expect targeted spying to be limited technically or not take place. It's simply too valuable to be able to monitor $espionage_target's computations.
- rthomas6 12y agoYes, I agree. I mean, that's the point of the NSA, right? That's why they were created, for electronic surveillance.
- jMyles 12y agoSimply put, I don't want the NSA to exist at all. Does that ensure that I run in "anarchist circles" in your mind? I don't think my view is far from the mainstream on this matter - many reasonable people are for abolition.
- pnathan 12y agoHonestly, yes, I would say that abolishing State espionage departments is right along anarchist thinking. It's been well known for centuries that gentlemen in the government business read each others mail as a matter of course.
- jMyles 12y agoFair enough. In some important ways, I probably am an anarchist. I don't believe in smashing the state, but I do believe that the internet will inevitably provide peaceful replacements for the various components of state, and that this will be a joyous motion.