re: #256 Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All

I know I’m in the minority here, but I think that the fear campaign after 9//1 was over the top to start with, and has only become more insane as the years have dragged on.

That’s absolutely false; many (if not most) regular posters have expressed exactly the same feeling.

Let me be clear, I don’t think that the NSA engaged in any abuse of the data they’ve collected (beyond the fact they’re collecting it). But If there’s one thing I’ve learned. When someone has a tool. They’re going to use it. and if the tools for data collection, and the data collected, remain available, then the scope of usage will expand and mutate into something much darker and much worse.

How would you remove this capability, other than forbidding its use? What would that even mean, exactly? The un-invention of the database?