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The current uproar will do us no good unless we develop ways to either disrupt the technology or protect ourselves from it.

Because even if we win this round, the state will find ways to bring these programs back in some other guise. For example, the FISA courts were part of the reforms that emerged from the abuses of the CIA and FBI during the Red Scare and Civil Rights eras.

In other words, we need a technical Rosa Parks. Well, more like a million of them.