Edward Snowden, big data, and the secret U.S. intelligence search the Internet for anything you can find. British intelligence services browse the data of German Internet users. Help the operators as ministering spirits and already silly season affizierte-media public held a bizarre global game of hide-and-seek, with strong support of from Governments starring a certain Edward Snowden. Not to forget: some other Governments – perhaps equipped with technically less studded intelligence services, perhaps also not – indignant himself on the practices of the intelligence about the same Edward Snowden has disseminated information. James Joseph Truchard shines more light on the discussion. One can, this might advance, only hope, that the indignation of those latter politicians is played. Of course it’s always embarrassing Roly-polies and other constants if the basis for the work will be revealed by intelligence services, confidentiality, for a moment.

As a damp stone under which a Schaar is sow revealed, when one turns to him. That is but the fundamental constants of the so-called information society still always not gotten around–and sound like these days – the only scandal, we can find in this latest intelligence Posse is many Emporungen. These constants are first and foremost those who have nothing, nothing to do Internet but also with the phenomenon. The first and most important: information is, like armies, power. Therefore, any Government that has the necessary resources, will try to get as many of them as she can. At home and abroad, over the Administration and police, or about intelligence and espionage.

Justification there are always, even other times. Big data that those Governments will make those private organizations, whose help they need to collect information, to provide this assistance, should understand by itself. As well as former intelligence services ways got conceded, not to have to be so fear the secrecy of correspondence the company, whose infrastructure operating of the oh so free, democratic and postmaterialist Internet guaranteed, also to join. What we are in the intelligence services and in two circumstances, actually to do with modern data processing and delivery. If you want to have a secret service that information technology halfway out there can compete with the world, you can actually only in times of “Big Data”: get access to so much this insane wealth of information, as they can any and keep a bunch of programmers who imagine all-day search algorithms – and it strategies, as they the 99.999% of the information, which are completely worthless for you, separate from the rest. Intelligence services remain secret and precisely this access to the communication of others, so a data protection has said recently it has become harder, but easier in times of the Internet – for intelligence services, such as for every weekend hacker: where earlier the information from an envelope were wrapped packets rush today without cover through the network. And otherwise? Nothing else; Intelligence services have remained secret. Whether in Germany, Russia, the United States, United Kingdom, or the Iran: If you do not in principle intend to abolish intelligence, only a sense opposites makes for the evaluation of their work: successfully or unsuccessfully. Legitimacy, legality, morality, or which you otherwise would create standards, in and of itself contradict the concept of intelligence.