When you're a hammer, your metric is how many nails you...nail.
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Please never enter politics.
But it should indeed have this kind of response.
Wanting privacy is not a crime.
Took me a second to calculate your meaning, this may help others.
It sounds like you understand the point of this program juuuust fine.
The effective rate of capture of dangerous weapons is pitiful (less than 10% according to both their own internal audits, and external tests performed by citizens).
At best, it was a jobs program for many lacking education, and was also good reason to sell those backscatter machines that someone in Congress' cousin or business associate's company was selling at the time.
...which was...everything.
Intelligence agencies put people everywhere.
We lead the arms race, in all categories.
Whenever an adversarial Nation buys new kit, missiles or heavy metal, it's to keep up, or keep out, the US.
China's rise in offensive technological process was undoubtedly in response to its knowledge (retrieved through hacking) of the extensive measures on US side.
We can set the pace. And that pace needs to slow down.
With the exception of the Feds saying "that's too much" here and there to folks they have a bone to pick with.
Then political goals of their superiors.
Sometimes those two are reversed.
Then comes us.
They're saying that there's easy and simple drop in replacements, app and service wise that can hook into better services/ones you host.
A "critical" spotlight - but a spotlight nonetheless.
See the difference?