Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targ…

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.