On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 05:42:35 -0500 Michael Best <themikebest@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, I didn't finish that thought.
That was the point - that 99% of the time it's not some super secret next-next-gen ECHELON CSI super-crap that gets someone, it's the little things. Enhanced prints, broken tail lights, an unmasked IP address, shit like that.
You don't know if that happens 99% of the time. I highly doubt it does. Fact remains, the kind of access that governments have to electronic communications enables them to catch lots of people for whatever 'crime' they want.
To put it in a metaphor, so many people waste so much time worrying about super-thieves getting past their laser grid that they never realize when they have their pocket picked, etc.
That may be true sometimes, but government surveillance remains a pretty serious threat, and the claim that the cops catch people doing 'old fashioned' 'police work' is mostly a smoke screen/propaganda.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Michael Best <themikebest@gmail.com> wrote:
That was the point.