Hobbes was fond of his dram...

Well, John Key has said that they don't do it so all the "Terrorists" can keep on sending those un-encrypted eMails with all their secrets and plots and…

The "state" in many countries stepped out of bounds a while ago. The question is how do we as subjects of any state (which are…

For anyone else who might be tempted, as I was, to read no further, I…

When the number of incidents tends to zero, that process becomes a lot…

Even if one cared to, one can't. Because if there actually was some oracle that could tell us how much terrorism there is that we're missing, we'd use that and forget about the data mining.

– we have a situation where there has been no organised islamic terrorist actions in NZ, and very few anywhere in the West for over ten years.

– human intelligence activity, or just old fashioned community policing is likely to verify that there are no organised terrorist…

Listen to the whole interview: both to see the type of adversarial questioning to which U.S. political leaders are so rarely subjected, but also to see just how obfuscating Key’s answers are.

which is a nice endorsement of natrad eh. But makes me think, who among us here…

Especially when the cell consists of one person and their inner voices.

Fletcher is a corporate man – it's all…

You're thinking of Soylent Green...

But this problem…

I'm not sure you can just retract a political promise like that – the real issue of course is that at the time Key made that…

I don't have his exact words but essentially his idea was that the government don't protect children from violence…

But when I said don't be a crank, I was thinking in the context of one on one interactions.

Best summed up in this classic post from Simon Garlick:

I pulled up at a small park in Adelaide’s north-east suburbs…

It really does seem this should be bigger news.

Though in the case of the most recent anti-terror legislation, the one they rammed through under…

Maybe someone could put a webcam in that nice tree outside, or have a quick squiz on their mate's friend's work database?

John Key’s hair splitting distinction between “collection” and “surveillance” is designed to let him not keep his word and resign. However, it also implies a much more sinister phrase; “If you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear”. Now where…

Welcome to the Panopticon.

It seems quite reasonable to draw a distinction between degrees of mass surveilance as to the collection and interrogation of data. What troubles me is the scope…

I'm not confident that The Musketeers are riding to our rescue this time.

The problem, of course, is that those in power like to paint anyone who doesn't like the way things are as a crank. Hager, for example, is nothing but measured and correct. And he is spun as a liar,…

What gets me is how you can actually make good decisions with all that info. With that much data, surely it's tempting to just confirm your own…

This is important. Don't be a crank. Be measured and correct.

Technically yes, in the John Key sense of "yes, of course". The data is unquestionably…

I feel there's an angle there.

Make an effort to work with MPs while not being a crank, submit to select committees, join and/or help political parties that promise the closest policy to what you want to see, use social media to spread real-world stories of abuses, use whatever…

If, as it seems to me by the conversation (or lack) from my family & friends this is a non-subject then what do we, who claim to be appalled actually do?

I have no answer. I am at a lost.
What do to you, I, we do?

(Keith…

For me the issue is this.…