There was some big internet security forum yesterday. "South by Southwest," or something, I don't know. My hero, Edward Snowden, and Glenn Greenwald, appeared, "virtually."

“They’re setting fire to the future of the Internet,” Snowden said of the National Security Agency. “We need public advocates. We need public oversight. Some way [to have] trusted figures, sort of civil rights champions to advocate for us, to protect the structure. How do we fix our oversight? How do we structure an oversight model that works? The key factor is accountability.”

Yeah, they are, and to that thing used as background for Snowden's appearance. The Constitution itself is just a document in the background now. "We have no privacy," I wrote here last June. 

Greenwald followed Snowden and picked up on some themes. They contradicted each other on one point: "Encrypt," Greenwald said, it works, although he also said the fact that you encrypt automatically makes you a target. Snowden had said encryption does not work against NSA. My sense, written here sometime after last June, was to do the opposite of encryption and "be careful." Let it all hang out, don't try to protect your communication, make every thought public, write as outrageously as you think. Overwhelm them with data, they can't sort through it all. 

You're never more anonymous than when on a crowded city street.

Never more visible than when hiding alone in a cabin in the middle of nowhere.

Greenwald said the reason there is no oversight by Congress in the U.S. is because the committee chairs are the spooks toadies. Right, there. Dianne Feinstein is a doddering tool. The only time she has been critical of the spooks was yesterday: The CIA violated the Constitution! she said...when they searched (CIA-provided) computers used by Senate staffers investigating torture. For the rest of us, it's legal.