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So I spend a lot of time thinking about what the NSA can do to improve their intelligence gathering. The idea is that the better intelligence they get, the less likely that they'll make a mistake. The government can pretty much gather all the information you sent over the web. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE STUFF YOU DON'T SEND? Let's say I wrote a full paragraph detailing my plans for nefarious activities, but end up not sending it, or rephrased it to sound less nefarious before sending it, the NSA has lost all that information within the first draft of the paragraph. (They would never know what I initially wrote in the first draft of the thread, ). But "if" they develop streaming keyloggers, they can also gather information that has not been sent.

I was actually wondering the same thing the other day. I wrote a post out about it and everything but then decided it was too crazy and deleted it.

I guess I have my answer now.

You know, I wonder how much of this data that is being gathered is being reviewed by sociologists etc. Be a shame if it were wasted on something as inconsequential and nebulous as political "control". Or a nightmare if it were being used to develop infallible means of social control by a single political entity.

Would a society that has no crime, no disease, and no dissent be a good thing?

Depends entirely on what you do to get there.

A good plan, but even that doesn't get to the draft you have in your head prior to writing it down. I think they should have a giant trial and judge everyone in the United States guilty of terrorism. Then we can hold tribunals in which each individual must prove that he or she is not, in fact, a terrorist.