I'm not a spy, which is the real question

It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems.

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past?