Man, I'm cynical today. Introducing a new post tag, "Eye of Sauron".
Monday, June 10, 2013
Yeah, I know that we have no privacy, but damn
In 1999, Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy famously said "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." So how shocking is the revelation that the NSA hoovers up 3 Billion phone calls each day? Even McNealy is shocked.
We're seeing the collapse of trust in the government. Quite frankly, the government has brought this on itself, step by step, over the course of the last 20 years. This has been building since the end of the Cold War when the "End Of History" looked like it might make the Intelligence community superfluous.
Man, I'm cynical today. Introducing a new post tag, "Eye of Sauron".
Man, I'm cynical today. Introducing a new post tag, "Eye of Sauron".
I think what's going on here is the difference between knowing something and "knowing something".
ReplyDeleteFolks have known of the government's fondness for data gathering . . . . now they "know it". Big difference. It's one thing to see the guys/gals of NCIS track a person via phone calls, credid card data, cell phone location, image tracking via security cameras and a host of other fantasy data . . .
It's quite another to realize that it can actually be done . . . . and then have parts of it used against citizens for political reasons.
It's a bit like watching a game of Jenga . . . . I wonder what the last block will be.
Eye of Sauron
ReplyDeleteLove it.
NSA called and said I had nothing to worry about...except the milk in my fridge was well past it's freshness date and might be sour by now.
Those guys, they really care.
Hit the nail on the head with that one BP... LOVE it... sigh
ReplyDelete"We're seeing the collapse of trust in the government." The government in general, or specifically the *federal* government? As far as I can tell, people seem to largely be OK with their state and local governments; and what they're not happy with, they're working on changing.
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