I have a bunch of notes and half-assed theories lying around here for an essay I’m working on about General Michael Hayden’s speech defending NSA wiretapping. But it’ll probably be a while before I get a chance to write that (and by then, we’ll have moved on to the scandal of spy technologies being used to take nude pictures of Hill interns).
So in the meantime, to tide you over, two worthwhile articles from Ars Technica:
NSA wiretap followup: Why computer-automated mass surveillance is a bad idea