[perlgeek]

> Same thing as when the SWAT team breaks down a door, just a digital version.

Not quite the same thing, because the SWAT team is not stealthy when it breaks down a door.

The stealth aspect is what bothers me about this: it's much harder to make ensure a stealthy operation sticks to all the rules than a public one.

In fact, the recent years in Germany have shown that the Parliament doesn't have firm control over what the various secret services do.