Angela Merkel has complained about tapping her mobile phone conversations by the NSA. Of course Obama denied it and let's guess what he told her: don't worry, baby, we didn't capture anything but metadata.
All this surveillance crap is getting egregiously tiresome as what the NSA is doing is flawed in multiple ways. There's little or no evidence they've ever been effective at anything but there's little chance they would be anyway. They've decided that electronic communication is all that matters in capturing bad guys so it seems quite obvious the answer is don't use it. Instead of using email, send your message via normal postal mail.
The NSA seems to exemplify the thinking that when you can only fix things with a hammer then everything around you starts looking like a nail. Ultimately they're limited by their own arrogance.
Say you're the big-time dope trafficker in Colombia, are you seriously going to use a cellphone to call up your partners in Miami to say, "Hola, amigos, I've got a hundred keys coming in on a speedboat tonight. Party hearty."
I saw recently that there are claims terrorist groups are using social networks to collect money to make bombs or whatever. Yah, this makes sense. People will suddenly stop playing Farmville and will become Muslims who want to blow up the world. What utter rubbish. With all the immense tapping and computing equipment available to the CIA and the NSA, it still took ten years to find bin Laden, assuming you believe any part of the official story. So, Homer, tell me again what good this NSA is supposed to be.
This isn't a how-to for terrorism as any idiot could figure this out ... except the idiots at the NSA who keep on spending more and more to do exactly the same thing thereby fully qualifying for Einstein's definition of insanity (i.e. repeating an act and expecting a different result).
Yes, of course there's another answer: what the NSA is doing has little or nothing to do with terrorism. Maybe that's so obvious that it doesn't need saying. Who knows.
All this surveillance crap is getting egregiously tiresome as what the NSA is doing is flawed in multiple ways. There's little or no evidence they've ever been effective at anything but there's little chance they would be anyway. They've decided that electronic communication is all that matters in capturing bad guys so it seems quite obvious the answer is don't use it. Instead of using email, send your message via normal postal mail.
The NSA seems to exemplify the thinking that when you can only fix things with a hammer then everything around you starts looking like a nail. Ultimately they're limited by their own arrogance.
Say you're the big-time dope trafficker in Colombia, are you seriously going to use a cellphone to call up your partners in Miami to say, "Hola, amigos, I've got a hundred keys coming in on a speedboat tonight. Party hearty."
I saw recently that there are claims terrorist groups are using social networks to collect money to make bombs or whatever. Yah, this makes sense. People will suddenly stop playing Farmville and will become Muslims who want to blow up the world. What utter rubbish. With all the immense tapping and computing equipment available to the CIA and the NSA, it still took ten years to find bin Laden, assuming you believe any part of the official story. So, Homer, tell me again what good this NSA is supposed to be.
This isn't a how-to for terrorism as any idiot could figure this out ... except the idiots at the NSA who keep on spending more and more to do exactly the same thing thereby fully qualifying for Einstein's definition of insanity (i.e. repeating an act and expecting a different result).
Yes, of course there's another answer: what the NSA is doing has little or nothing to do with terrorism. Maybe that's so obvious that it doesn't need saying. Who knows.
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