We, the US, since the after-war years have been involved in espionage, spying and data collection and assessment.
Computers and other technology exponentially escalated our ability to gather, store and assess data in radically new computational ways, and this was not wasted on NSA and the other data miners.
We are about to open up the MegaMemory Death Star in Utah that could house and process every bit of information man has ever developed or communicated - from caveman drawings to the silly stuff my grand daughters watch on the internet - in perpetuity.
This was all good when it was against our enemies. Since the fall of the FSU, we focused on other things - economic intelligence, spying on our friends and allies to keep aprised, and in later years, the [ooga booga] War on Al Qaeda. However, Osama, we’re told is ‘dead’, and Al Qaeda is ‘on the run’. Yet the NSA keeps on spying, spying on everybody, apparently.
They and this government need to be reined in - a lot. We are not children that will keep on getting scared when we hear the government say “Baba Yaga” [aka Al Qaeda]. We have more to fear from Obama than them.
I like the way you think.
Ooga Booga indeed.
What is the solution to enemy inforomation and communication monitoring?
Information that cannot be counteracted.