It‘s easy to feel helpless when facing a government that has the power or claims the authority to spy on virtually everybody in the world with impunity.
BUT IT CAN BE STOPPED.
In 1975, Sen. Frank Church warned America about the federal spy program, saying that if a dictator took over the NSA it “could enable [him] to impose total tyranny.“
And that was before the advent of the Internet.
Here we are almost 40 years later and Congress hasn’t done a thing about it. In fact, things are actually far worse. Politicians in D.C. have repeatedly failed to fix the issue, even in the wake of leaked documents and damning revelations.
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu advised this strategy: “Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”
The NSA expects its opponents to “attack” from the same front they always have: Washington D.C. It’s ready for that.
But it does have an Achilles Heel.