Flutterby™! : the end of privacy

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell wants to read all information crossing the internet in the United States:

Spychief Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America's cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillance law look like "a walk in the park," McConnell tells The New Yorker in the issue set to hit newsstands Monday. "This is going to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we're going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens."

I got there via Wendy McElroy who linked to The Raw Story on McConnell's over-reaching and Ars Technica's look at the issue.

Right now, go figure out what it takes to run GPG on your email client, and find a secure channel by which to give me your key. When organizations that have been so profoundly wrong so many times are justifying themselves with

In the past six years, McConnell says, U.S. intelligence agencies have stopped "many, many" terrorist attacks.

something horrendous has already happened, and a good start at correcting that is making sure that twits like this would-be J. Edgar Hoover don't get their chance to play out their stupid power trips, even if they can get our congressweasels to roll over for this sort of idiotic scare-mongering.