Re: except
Do you regularly send emails that would give the TSA a reason to consider you a risk to board a plane?
I have a really hard time with arguments about how bad it is for the FBI / TSA / etc. to have access to your personal details, because of what they might do - no law abiding citizen should have anything to fear from that.
However, that doesn't mean that the FBI / TSA / etc. should have access to this information, because
a) Any backdoor that allows the authorities in is immediately a vulnerability that could be exploited by *anyone*
b) Can you be certain that the authorities systems won't be breached?
It is *impossible* to protect the human rights of law abiding citizens (you know, the things like keeping them safe from being murdered), if you don't obtain information that "the bad guys" thought they were keeping private (whether that's because of their own deficiencies, or a deliberate breach).
But proportionality and accountability are important. What the FBI wants is not a consequence-free solution, it creates it's own problems and we have to be honest about that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
