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by musha68k·10y ago·view on hn ↗
Have you played "The Room"? I might just install it again right here on my smartphone after reading your comment - "fetishist" that I am :)

With that statement of mine I was mostly trying to convey how some things shouldn't be easy.

Let me try to paraphrase:

I'm sure that Sherlock would find a way to open that safe without a computer doing it for him!

To a certain degree I can understand the frustration of executive agencies over their apparent missing-out on all the shiny low-hanging fruit - but they shouldn't worry so much as the promises of most tech be it the use of "big data" or accessing our all-encompassing "personal assistants" ultimately won't free them of doing their jobs.

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> With that statement of mine I was mostly trying to convey how some things shouldn't be easy.

I agree completely. I think attempts to paint this as a "reversal" of hundreds of years of governmental warrant procedure is ignoring that these new devices and this new data didn't exist hundreds of years ago. If we're going to put a huge amount of valuable data about our lives in one place, we'd better protect that place better than we've ever protected anything before.