[Cryptography] "Most Americans Don't Mind Being on Candid Camera"

[Barney Wolff]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 07:34:08PM +0000, ianG wrote:
> 
> Spying on everyone is fine - for national security.  But there is a 
> long-standing taboo between mixing national / military affairs with 
> domestic / criminal affairs.

The problem arises when money paid for drugs, for example, or kiddie porn,
finds its way to finance terrorists.  Or when we are told that it does,
whether or not that is so.  And a sufficiently successful criminal
enterprise is indeed a national security threat.