>Cameron, still speaking in the Commons, says he does not believe it is acceptable that there should be internet communications that authorities are not permitted to intercept. The government should legislate on this, he adds.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2014/nov/25/lee-rigb...
Authorities can in practice permit themselves to do anything they damn well want, I'm not under any illusions otherwise. But I want to do everything I can to try to make sure that neither they nor anyone else are able to perform mass surveillance - because I know damned well there is now no other way of stopping such grossly horrendous violations of everyone's inalienable rights to privacy. They lie routinely; they have no oversight, no accountability, no limits, no apologies, no truths, and absolutely no hope of reform inside a system that is not even prepared to acknowledge what it is doing is wrong, let alone stop it.
Talk is cheap, but I will state now that no legislation of any kind will stop me trying to develop, publish, advocate and deploy strong encryption and anti-surveillance techniques everywhere that I can: places where such techniques are illegal are uniformly the places that need it most. Maybe trying to bring a little more 'civil liberty through complex mathematics' is all I can do: but it's something.
a) get into hiring positions in the government and hire the stupidest, least qualified and incompetent people you can get then quit and leave the projects in the shit.
b) spend money galore so it cant be used on anything else
c) leak insider information on the sly.
d) use the tools you built against the people who paid for them.
e) manipulate and shame other staff out of positions of power.
f) play people off against each other and create new rivalry which consumes all money and time.
I worked for the defence industry. This is how to break it.