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Surveillance

4:37pm, Tuesday 17 June 2008

Excellent quote on the surveillance state from Cory Doctorow:

Outside of dramatically failed experiments like the Soviet Union and East Germany, policing has never been a business of gathering data on every single person and arresting the guilty ones. This doesn't catch guilty people, it ensnares the innocent and acts as a kind of monetary black hole, absorbing all the cash we can toss into it, growing larger and more voracious by the day.

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