RT @mgubrud: @mchorowitz So then IF a human says "Kill Sarah Connor but try to avoid collateral damage" then that's OK (unde…

Snowden: The NSA's building Skynet to fight wars online

The real Skynet: New NSA autonomous weapons system intercepts threats and retaliates automatically

Hayden says protecting Bin Laden under 4th amendment :

“Because you appear on a telephone list of somebody doesn’t make you a terrorist. That’s the kind of information that gets put in there.”

Police agencies coercing people into committing crimes so they can arrest them is not completely unheard of. (It's been used liberally to create the idea that the nation is crawling with Islamic terrorists.)

This form of control is indifferent to whether or not I “believe” in it. I can’t choose to opt out or face it down with a vigilant skepticism. I can decide to resist—I can toss my smartphone in a lead bag and refuse all social media—but these decisions won’t affect the social infrastructure I am embedded in.

The NSA will soon be able to collect 966 exabytes a year, the total of internet traffic annually. Former Google head Eric Schmidt once argued that the entire amount of knowledge from the beginning of humankind until 2003 amount to only five exabytes.

Google’s DC office is crammed to the brim with former spooks, intelligence officials and revolving door military contractors.

Designers create a Faraday-cage cloak to foil NSA, other spies