WilhelmIII on Nostr: This is what Echelon was alleged to fix. Automated keyword sifting with the results ...

This is what Echelon was alleged to fix.

Automated keyword sifting with the results forwarded to people for analysis.

But it was never going to work at scale. And about a third of messages on the Internet are now encrypted. Much of it is shitty encryption, but even that takes extra cycles to get around.

The power of the Panopticon is in making you believe that you can't do anything because everything is being watched.