Hmmm (Score 1)

When you think about it Echelon isn't all that much of a surprise. In many ways the government is about as paranoid as anyone else. If you think about it, it's a beautiful catch twenty-two. If they don't spy on everyone, someone might oh say blow something up. What happens, some government agency gets blamed for screwing things up. If they do spy on everyone, the moment people find out their up in arms about their privacy. I personally would rather have the privacy which adds the inability to abuse the system rather than the safety, others probably disagree. Fine but it should be a public debate, not some politician's call.