Sadly the NSA and China are NOT strange bed fellows, and you don't need a lot imagination to see what's gone wrong with world.<p>For the clueless or tragically optimistic:<p>Fascism came out on top. Communism failed spectacularly, socialism and capitalism slowly give way to fascism.
Is this why the US under Reagan brought the USSR to its knees? So that the West could team up with China on tracing dissent?<p>I'm saddened, I really am.
<i>"... TraceBack is most useful in monitoring the activities of large masses of people. But of course, that's why the Chinese and the NSA are so interested in this proposal in the first place. ..."</i><p>Step 4 on the way to a Fascist state. Set up a comprehensive internal surveillance system ~ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment</a>