Greetings, @pbgreenpoint,

Thank you for reading and for your thoughtful comments.

We actually already have a three letter agency in the U.S. that behaves in this way, and far worse. I do however share your hope that appropriate, distributed technologies will be able to revitalize our liberty.

The problem now, as always, is that most people don't bother to resist, and thus don't feel the boot of tyranny.