While expected (and necessary) that government surveillance goes cyber, slightly unsettling to see it as such a burdgeoning private industry; and although having email hacked, or being spied on via your phone or computer webcam is no more a violation than the police searching your home and placing bugs, think reasonable to worry that the ease with which this can now be deployed might open the door to abuses (or at least excessive usage). Especially when read things like "the venture capital-backed company boasts that its technology can be used "country-wide" to monitor more than 100,000 targets simultaneously, and cannot be detected by anti-virus software" .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/01/governments-hacking-techniques-surveillance
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