The “power of an informed public,” he wrote, had forced the U.S. government to scrap its bulk collection of phone records. As cyber-gangs and state-sponsored hackers continue to raid private data across the free-world, this article ponders just what benefit we really gain from stopping our own governments from 'snooping' on their own citizens. "The increasingly fierce barrage of cyber attacks originating from non-democracies against the governments of democratic nations ... is a new form of asymmetry for which democratic countries lack effective answers. The United States has been slow to recognize that it needs to do more than simply defend its systems from cyberattacks."
As cyber-gangs and state-sponsored hackers continue to raid private data across the free-world, this article ponders just what benefit we really gain from stopping our own governments from 'snooping' on their own citizens. "The increasingly fierce barrage of cyber attacks originating from non-democracies against the governments of democratic nations ... is a new form of asymmetry for which democratic countries lack effective answers. The United States has been slow to recognize that it needs to do more than simply defend its systems from cyberattacks."