What I find most fascinating about the evolution of spookery on Planet Moore isn't that they've all enthusiastically followed their instincts to find, store and analyse everything - which has been going on since the early telegraph networks. It's that we can do the same, if we want.
I could, for example, build an ELINT cubesat payload for around a thousand dollars. Getting it up and running costs a few thousand more, and it'd have to pass muster as something innocuous to get a launch, but radio hams have been sticking stuff up there for decades so it's at least plausible. The history of disguising orbiting hardware is as long as the history of orbiting hardware. And it's not as if the NSA has done a particularly good job of hiding from scrutiny - but with around 4 million people security-cleared in the US (compare that with the 1.5 million on the open federal payroll...) it's not as if the concept of secrecy means what they think it means.
If we want to - by we, I mean enough savvy independents - it becomes entirely plausible to create an open global pan-spectrum surveillance system that's going to be pretty good at spotting spooks at work. And, if the spooks persist in behaving as a legitimate enemy towards reasonable people, then it's both a moral and an important thing to do.
What such a society would look like... well, isn't that what SF is for?
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