Unintended Consequences: How NSA Revelations May Lead To Even More Surveillance

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 29, 2013 @11:10PM from the can't-beat-this-horse-deader-without-more-whips dept.

Lauren Weinstein writes with a slightly depressing end-of-year prediction. An excerpt: "This then may be the ultimate irony in this surveillance saga. Despite the current flood of protests, recriminations, and embarrassments — and even a bit of legal jeopardy — intelligence services around the world (including especially NSA) may come to find that Edward Snowden's actions, by pushing into the sunlight the programs whose very existence had long been dim, dark, or denied — may turn out over time to be the greatest boost to domestic surveillance since the invention of the transistor."

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Re: Libertarians are full of crap. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-30 00:33 · Score: 0, Funny

Do you have a down syndrome?
Re:Does it matter by flyneye · 2013-12-30 00:33 · Score: 3, Funny

I blame food additives...

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Re:Does it matter by Merk42 · 2013-12-30 02:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah I can't believe all this stupid PATRIOT ACT shit Bush is doing, I mean his administration won't last forever. I tell you what, next election I'm voting for the other party, this Obama guy promises transparency.