If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

Privacy is a fundamental human need.

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.