Yesterday, I wrote about how there is little evidence that the NSA’s mass surveillance is effective. Bruce Schneier has an interesting article up that argues it’s worse than that. Schneier says that the NSA is a threat to our security.
Most of his arguments will be familiar to Irreal readers but the thing that struck me was his depressing assessment of how difficult it will be to fix things. He says that new laws will be largely ineffective because the NSA will apply their infamous “novel interpretations” to them and lie about what they are doing. We need, he says, to work towards security not surveillance.
Put that way, it’s easy to see why he thinks the system will be hard to reform. Just think about all the NSA apologists and their constant mouthing of the agency’s talking points. Most of them, I’m sure, think security and sticking their noses into everyone else’s business are the same thing.