Police State

More end-to-end encryption services being funded to thwart NSA. The market supplies.

Massachusetts lab busted for corrupting evidence. They all do it, but they rarely get caught.

There is no such thing as the rule of law in a country with a coercive government, and the NSA is just one example.

"This principle is of great relevance in the present NSA scandals, especially in light of recent NSA admissions of “compliance problems” with the legal constraints that are supposed to operate on the agency. For ordinary citizens, “compliance problems” with the law are better known as “crimes” (or possibly civil wrongs) and these lead to judgment debts, fines, and possibly even jail time, depending on the severity of the lack-of-compliance. But for government officials such notions are irrelevant — legal compliance problems are just something you file a report about, and send to another bureaucrat higher up in the government chain, so that he can bury it on his desk. "

Laws are for serfs, not rulers, and they terms aren't even the same.

As if we needed more evidence that Google is an eager partner with the NSA. The same is true for all the giant tech and telecom corporations. They are all plutocrats.

Technology in Elysium is already being developed.

Snowden wins whistleblower prize in Germany. Good deal.