[Cryptography] Bamford: Over Eight Years, President Barack Obama Has Created the Most Intrusive Surveillance Apparatus in the World. To What End?

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Wed Sep 28 11:49:48 EDT 2016




On 09/27/2016 11:11 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> Forwarded-By: "Dave Farber" <farber at gmail.com>
> 
> http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/39340-over-eight-years-president-barack-obama-has-created-the-most-intrusive-surveillance-apparatus-in-the-world-to-what-end
> 
> by James Bamford in Foreign Policy, 2016-09-25.

If any single presidency were to more to blame, it would imply that
construction of the surveillance state has significantly lagged
available technology during some other presidency.  I don't think that's
happened.  It hasn't happened in US government since the 9/11 attacks
legitimized the tactic of selling fear in order to buy back freedom, and
it hasn't happened in private-sector businesses since hard drives got
cheap and communications with laughable security got common.

Universal Surveillance, whether the data are gathered from primary
sources, purchased, "shared" from other governments, extorted, or
outright stolen, is the norm of modern government.  Surveillance as a
business model is the default form of today's private industry.


				Bear

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