Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper

[Ken Brown]

> If 250 million Americans have a generation to a generation and a half lead
> in the key technologies of the present and future world, 

30-50 years? Rubbish. For software anyway (which is more or less what
we're talking about) we all use the same stuff now. The technological
lead of the rich countries is a wealth lead, not a knowledge one. If
Pakistan or Iran had the money and the infrastructure they could build
the same stuff the Americans can, more or less. Science is
international. Software more or less is. 

> will you choose to
> protect that or maintain your capability to hack the other 6 billion people
> on this planet, a fair number of whom are not yet far removed from the stone
> age? 

Bollocks.  What utter crap. I assume you are exaggerating for effect,
and not, as your language seems to indicate, a wizened old racist git
who wishes all the darkies would go home.