And yet another, long overdue post dealing with the real world. Blame the world for being this busy and the BBC for being not.
If by now you the name Edward Snowden does not ring a bell for you then you are either my spell-checker, or you have been living on a different planet for the past 5 months. After all, the coverage it got on the news has been overwhelming, to say the least.
And while those nice people on the news tried their best to say what happened, somehow they didn't manage to inform the even nicer citizens of the world what Snoweden's revelations mean to us.
Luckily, one of the recent articles in The Guardian makes a great job in provide answers in this matter. It's a rather longish one, but I have seldom seen a this easily comprehensive summary of how the publication of those top secret documents affects us. Give it a try.
So, what does it tell us? Mostly, that the world's secret services are an enormous and powerful organisation, and as such, you really do not want to mess with them. Because if there's stuff they do not know about, they'll soon have the technology to change this.
The only thing regarding the Sonowden documents which hasn't failed to take me by surprise is the fuss it stirred. Because, we do not really need those documents to learn that people, and therefore anything operated by people, lie. And most of us have
suspected even before anno Snoweden that every step you make on the
internet can be reconstructed, somehow; that for us mere mortals there is
no such thing as a bug-proof 'line'; that your mobile is basically a
device developed by the government to check the position and activities
of its citizens 24/7. Giving information to the government is the cost we pay for living in this brave, new, even though constantly monitored, world. So, tap the 'connect to Wi-Fi' button and be nice. You may be watched.
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