To kill a mocking birdman.

Interesting article by a wired reporter who spent four days digging for tidbits at the ISS World Conference, a surveillance trade show for law enforcement, intelligence types and government officials who officially don't exist. There are some valid points spread throughout the article, not the least of which is that US government is more likely to abuse the technologies offered at the show than many of the more obvious suspects, such as various Middle East governments, and that this type of technology really won't catch the skilled technology users so often pundited as the biggest threat, but only the unskilled common criminal. Being familiar with the technical deficiency of most technological users, I'd have to say I completely agree with the second point..

-Z