Schneier on Security

RadioStar • January 29, 2016 6:31 PM

Snazzy. Good way of making the point.

However, they do leave out one of the core concerns of the matter: yeah, I suppose they have an apparent “spook” saying “support our snoops they care what your’re doing”, and they have a cop saying, “Lazy cops for easy unlocking”.

But, really, it isn’t much about “lazy cops”, and “snoops/spooks” don’t actually care about what you are doing.

More like “support your sheriff who is up for re-election and wants to make sure he wins by surveilling his competition and their supporters”. Or “support your spooks who want that surveillance to control the elected and unelected political process”.

Hell, Obama, we know was spied on as a congressman.

Good news is, an outsider like Trump will never win even if he had eighty percent of the population behind him. With strong enough and wide enough surveillance powers, it is just too easy to bring his campaign to failure.

Which very often is much more like Watergate, then attacking the headliner directly.

Not as sexy, not as simple, but it is how things really work.