Re: Cautiously optimistic
I recommend ignoring anyone who says, right now, that it's good or bad.
Neither, it's simply not required.
A lot of smoke an mirrors have been used to conjure up new threats (as if the IRA wasn't a real threat back in the day) and miraculous new ways of communicating open to the new threats.
All the evidence, not that there is much of it because there are vested interests in expansion of surveillance, continues to point toward the fact that properly funded detective work can provide grounds for suspicion necessary to get a warrant to do pretty much what the fuck you want. But ever-expanding surveillance diverts resources away from detective work and also encourages to commodification of anti-surveillance techniques such as encrypted peer-to-peer messaging.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
