"If the U.S. Army cannot bring the Ft. Hood shooter to trial after 18 months, you know the system is jammed already. Noise is your friend. The more data the government collects, the more noise exists between you and an agency that seeks convictions."
Interesting article. With access to a simply incredible amount of data, I wonder exactly how many people are actually working to parse it for anything other than specific inquiries...
Unfortunately, if perhaps realistically, this assumes/presumes that "the system" -- and public authorities -- are your enemy.
Instead of seeking and implementing real, effective, restricted, audited governance, we end up promoting the opposite.
Mind you. I've no love for current fascist or neo-fascist tendencies. OTOH, I don't hold much hope for the typical (or, least common denominator) libertarian agenda, either.
I try to avoid politics on HN -- and more and more, in general. OTOH, from a societal perspective, one can fairly neutrally ask whether a society can govern itself, or not. The U.S. seems to be increasingly veering towards "not".
"If the U.S. Army cannot bring the Ft. Hood shooter to trial after 18 months, you know the system is jammed already. Noise is your friend. The more data the government collects, the more noise exists between you and an agency that seeks convictions."
From: http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1118.html