Civil Liberties

It seems that PRISM is only used against political dissidents, not criminals.

That's very much at odds with the law. We could prosecute the war on drugs to a successful victory, for example. Why haven't we?

Oh yeah, what was I thinking? The criminals who run the drug trade also run the NSA. Doh!

There's no way this toothpaste will ever go back in the tube. The only way forward that makes sense now is to make as much of this stuff public as is humanly possible. It should all be in the public domain, and it should all be done using open source software, especially the stuff that is paid for with public funds.