Surveillance forces journalists to think and act like spies

[dan at geer.org]

 | You appear to assume the intelligence community is
 | "independent", which appears false to me.
 | 
 | IMHO the intelligence community have boss/es outside
 | of it, which are definitely not poor.
 | 
 | Pretty sure this is true for Bulgaria (member of EU).
 | 
 | The intelligence community is just a tool, like an
 | admin is.
 | 
 | Maybe our definitions of "rich" differ.


Here, as everywhere, in a public policy document or debate
it is all over after the definitions page.  The rest is
mere mechanics.  Perhaps we do need to hash out what rich
means though on a whole-world scale the majority of the
readers of this list are at the top of the heap.  The (my)
speech I cited is what I had to say on the record, and is
the best that I've (currently) got; I'll revisit when time
permits.  Here, though, is Paul Krugman in a similar vein
three weeks ago today:

[PK] Paul Krugman, "Apple and the Self-Surveillance State," New
York Times, 10 April 2015
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/apple-and-the-self-surveillance-state

--dan