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NPR: Digging the Depth of the NSA Phone Data Program

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)6/06/2013 7:17:35 pm PDT

re: #47 Decatur Deb

What you’re describing is “Security through Obscurity”. My kid, who is on the commercial end of this issue, says you’re right, for now.

The panopticon will always fail, because guards get bored, start jerking off, the technicians splice in the big fight, etc. etc.

The only perfect surveillance would be done by AI, real AI, not just expert systems. And if we’ve got real AI, we would have solved most of the problems this sort of surveillance is supposed to detect, anyway.