Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 392
>> Me too. It's a hell of a lot harder to bug every man, woman, and child in the west than it is to intercept and crawl their communications
You don't need to do that.
You just put a worm or backdoor in all these peoples smartphones
>> bug every man, woman, and child in the west
The east attempted that before '89, didn't work so well
It didn't work out that badly either. You don't directly spy on everyone; you give everyone a really good incentive to spy on everyone else for you. Kind of what 5 eyes does but on a more personal level.