Surveillance tools are becoming stronger and harder to compromise. We have a lot of reasons to expect that they will play an increasing role in law enforcement.


For that reason, we have an imperative to repair our code of laws in a somewhat timely way so that we don't suddenly imprison all of our society's most valuable rebellious minds. Not all of our laws are ideal - that should be clear. The ones that mess with our melting pot in the wrong ways will do us a lot of damage if we don't get humble about reforming them before the police state is realized.