When discussing government signals intelligence programs with the average person, the industrial espionage point is often a very good one with which to sway skeptics who consider individual privacy concerns and totalitarianism-potential too ephemeral to take as serious threats.
It is unfortunate, though, that the subject is generally, as within the EU report document, framed within a nationalist perspective - nationalism itself being something of a time-honoured trap for the same class of victim.
My most favoured quote of late is Einstein's description of nationalism: an infantile disease; the measles of humanity. Our generation's challenge is to conquer this.
It is unfortunate, though, that the subject is generally, as within the EU report document, framed within a nationalist perspective - nationalism itself being something of a time-honoured trap for the same class of victim.
My most favoured quote of late is Einstein's description of nationalism: an infantile disease; the measles of humanity. Our generation's challenge is to conquer this.