[Skybird]

And there are some who are even worse than the Taleban.

I assume the US will keep an ELINT eye on things and occasionally spend a RC air visit, dropping a present.

ELINT misses out on HUMINT, however. Whether that loss pays out bad or not, remains to be seen. As usual, I am not optimistic.

I would like iof media spend more focus on the theft of biometric databases. It illustrates a deep and very serious dnager valdi for us Wetserners alla cross Wetsenr nations. Indian poipulaiton and US population alrready has seen siugnficant parts fo their citizend havign their exe scans and fingeprrints being stolen by "somebody". Numbers I believe to recall from already several years ago said one third of the US population and several hundred million Indian citizens (India runs a very extensive biometric regime on its population) have their data beign stolen by somebody, may it be hostile governments, criminal organisations, political extremists hoping to come to power in the future, big business - whomever.

Ask your doc for an emergency injection of imagination if you do not see an issue in that. Its a very grave concern as long as you have no magic orb allowing you to see into the future and know whether or not legislation will turn to abuse these data, or not. Whatever polticians cna break, they will break it sooner or later, and Murphy's law says that evertyhing that could theoretically happen, will happen if you wait long enough. When it comes to state and politics, I always expect the worst and do never trust.