why is spying on others "valuable" ? how is it not just obsession-material at the individual level and security-state building at the social level?
one existential answer to this is -- "security" must be constant by its nature. Over time, budgets, training and attention settle to a lowest-common-denominator of "security" while authorship, initiative, marks of individuality and evolution fall by the wayside in the murk of "responding to threats" .. while insecurity and overwhelm in an individual push towards addiction and obsession.
Basically, viewed one way, this hack tool feeds a public movement towards funding constant security while there are provable deficits of resources and attention in many directions.
As an American I heard stories of the "awful" East German communist state with Stazi informants, yet similar reinforcing dynamics seem to be in play now in the "free world" ..
one existential answer to this is -- "security" must be constant by its nature. Over time, budgets, training and attention settle to a lowest-common-denominator of "security" while authorship, initiative, marks of individuality and evolution fall by the wayside in the murk of "responding to threats" .. while insecurity and overwhelm in an individual push towards addiction and obsession.
Basically, viewed one way, this hack tool feeds a public movement towards funding constant security while there are provable deficits of resources and attention in many directions.
As an American I heard stories of the "awful" East German communist state with Stazi informants, yet similar reinforcing dynamics seem to be in play now in the "free world" ..