> A significant part of out telecom and computing ecosystem was built to friendly for surveillance.
A very interesting point. We've all collectively raised the cry against building backdoors into products when the very backbone of much of our (commercial) network infrastructure has been friendly to backdoors (required by law, I believe) for decades.
Perhaps, in the near future, some catastrophic network incursion will make the concept of "tapping a phone line" a relic of the past, requiring much more intensive, in-person intelligence gathering to collect similar information.
Although, given the complete lack of progress on homicidal maniacs with guns in the US, it seems unlikely that a massive telecom breach will really change anything, unless it reveals the improprieties of a majority of our elected officials. (Note: I'm not arguing that legislation will fix that particular problem (read: maniacs w/guns), just that inertia has prevented any real progress or attempts at progress from being made in that regard)
A very interesting point. We've all collectively raised the cry against building backdoors into products when the very backbone of much of our (commercial) network infrastructure has been friendly to backdoors (required by law, I believe) for decades.
Perhaps, in the near future, some catastrophic network incursion will make the concept of "tapping a phone line" a relic of the past, requiring much more intensive, in-person intelligence gathering to collect similar information.
Although, given the complete lack of progress on homicidal maniacs with guns in the US, it seems unlikely that a massive telecom breach will really change anything, unless it reveals the improprieties of a majority of our elected officials. (Note: I'm not arguing that legislation will fix that particular problem (read: maniacs w/guns), just that inertia has prevented any real progress or attempts at progress from being made in that regard)