@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-06 (UTC)

Reading – 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America (Walter Hickey) http://t.co/GFhFKD7v5q 17:50:11
Reading – U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program (Gellman/Poitras) http://t.co/0FpXda8Ej3 22:29:20
Reading – NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily (Glenn Greenwald) http://t.co/5i3hxFVPw9 22:42:17
Reading – NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal (Greenwald/MacAskill) http://t.co/oKcQvrpV77 23:20:15
This week's surveillance revelations are unsurprising, but still very sad. Any marginal security from this is not worth it. Not even close. 23:21:48
The thing to always remember: Even if you trust the current leaders to wield vast powers, what about the next guys? Or the ones after that? 23:28:42
You should never set up a system that allows people (anybody!) to wield powers you wouldn't want your worst enemies to wield. 23:29:32
Because if a system exists, if the powers exist, you can be sure that sooner or later, people you violently disagree with will use them. 23:30:28
Thus the reason for explicit limits on power, and strong checks and balances to prevent abuse. 23:34:46
Too bad when people get scared, limits get lifted, and the people who are supposed to check and balance justвЂ¦ don't. 23:35:30