»HumInt and Hubris: The Decline of American Intelligence«

... betitelt sich ein Artikel auf »Traditionalist Youth Network«, der die derzeit köchelnde Snowden-Affaire von einem grundsätzlicheren Gesichtspunkt betrachtet:

The United States government scrapes all of the telecom industry’s metadata, private telecom contractors and software corporations employ a vast web of back doors and intelligence gathering processes. Gone are the days where government employees monitored elite crime bosses in surveillance vans. The proliferation of technology has now empowered our government, and most other governments, to leverage voice recognition software and automated processes to monitor as much as it can handle processing.

I don’t wish to downplay the horrifying and Orwellian nature of this development, but it ought to be contextualized. This regime’s capacity to actually monitor (not merely record and archive) human intelligence is very limited, and increasingly limited as time passes. In fact, this government has less access to and control over domestic dissident groups than it had before the transistor was even invented. (Hier weiterlesen)

Ein durchaus kontroversieller Artikel mit ... ähem: unkonventionellen Ansichten, zugegeben ... — aber hätte sowas LePenseur je daran gehindert, sich damit zu befassen ...?