NSA Spying Is Like Orwell's 1984 Coming True

The NSA spying is like George Orwell's 1984 coming true but there is a blessing and a curse that comes with technology. And we are living with both.

The new enemy lives under the shadows, in the digital black space that can only be culled with a wide laser beam. Cell calls, emails, web traffic, instant messaging, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Reddit, Tumblr. How do you keep track of  these massive social venues for terrorist communication?

Now add Torrent P2P programs, foreign languages, underground servers from Russia, China, North Korea, with millions of users working 24 hours a day to bring down our nation.

"The vast majority of computer surveillance involves the monitoring of data and traffic on the Internet. In the United States for example, under the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act, all phone calls and broadband internet traffic (emails, web traffic, instant messaging, etc.) are required to be available for unimpeded real-time monitoring by Federal law enforcement agencies.

Packet capture (also sometimes referred to as “packet sniffing”) is the monitoring of data traffic on a computer network. Computers communicate over the Internet by breaking up messages (emails, images, videos, web pages, files, etc.) into small chunks called "packets", which are routed through a network of computers, until they reach their destination, where they are assembled back into a complete "message" again.

Under the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act all U.S. telecommunications providers are required to install packet sniffing technology to allow Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to intercept all of their customers' broadband Internet traffic."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_surveillance

There isn't a way around it.

You live in an age where direct communication is the result of vastly sophisticated technology that you and I barely understand. We take it all for granted that it will work when we turn it on and gripe endlessly on the very same internet when it doesn't function as we expect.

When there is an attack from Al Qaeda, we damn well better get answers on who did the deed and who was asleep at the wheel.

Google is caught between a rock and a hard place. Google must comply with NSA data mining and they must resist living in the shadows with a shadow government. But this data needs to be mined because the new terrorist lives beneath the shadows in the black.

The only way to keep ahead of the enemy is to be a constant gardener of chatter on the information super highway, where intelligence travels at the speed of light.