Report on Privacy Loss

NYT has a front page special report today on the booming computer investigative industry which is using legal and illegal means to mine and peddle personal, corporate and political data, dirt and damaging secrets. As one nabbed dick says, it's no longer ex-intel and ex-feebs who are doing it, now the techies and beagles of all sorts have rubbed their eyes at the amazing golddust on their screens. It might boost the demand for crypto and other essential tools for privacy, or it may just lead to more cyber-TLAs and -bounties willfully busting the wrong Jim Bells while warning their still-connected buddies of "court-okayed" wiretaps and traps. http://www.nytimes.com