U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program, Washington Post article.
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.
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There will be a lot of people who look at this and think the government's coming for their freedom somehow. I don't see it - our government isn't competent enough to do anything like that. If they can use this to stop a bomb or two from going off, fine.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think the scary thing is that governments *are* so stupid. If they were bright, perhaps they would usually get the right people.
ReplyDeleteBut look at something like the old Waco incident , complete friggin disaster. They moved in with tanks and guns, and oddly, the isolationist cult did not react calmly to that! and it all went up with women and children and all.
Totally agree. Waco's a great example. I always hold up incidents like that whenever anyone gets on the slippery slope/conspiracy train. C'mon, wouldn't they have buried mustard gas in Iraq when they were trying to justify that war, then pretend to dig it up and say Saddam was using it on his citizens? Instead, no WMDs, and no justification for the war. They're idiots, collectively. I can't speak for the British government, but I suspect they're the same.
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