Here’s a long and fascinating article about something I touched on briefly yesterday<\/a>, the tension between security and privacy<\/a>. <\/p>\n Immediately after 9\/11, politicians and pundits slammed the Bush administration for failing to \u201cconnect the dots\u201d foreshadowing the attack. What a difference a little amnesia makes. For two years now, left- and right-wing advocates have shot down nearly every proposal to use intelligence more effectively\u2014to connect the dots\u2014as an assault on \u201cprivacy.\u201d Though their facts are often wrong and their arguments specious, they have come to dominate the national security debate virtually without challenge. The consequence has been devastating: just when the country should be unleashing its technological ingenuity to defend against future attacks, scientists stand irresolute, cowed into inaction.<\/p>\n In a sense, the no-budge attitudes of privacy advocates serve a useful purpose — to keep constraints on what data-based security we use, and thus, potentially, abuse. That dynamic tension usually serves as useful restraints on governmental power, and drives reforms (as in law suits to create ways to get peoples’ names off of security lists).<\/p>\n The question is, will that useful purpose also lead to preventable further loss of life? And is that a cost we’re willing to pay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a long and fascinating article about something I touched on briefly yesterday, the tension between security and privacy. 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