We live in a surveillance state. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies have access to a huge amount of data about us, enabling them to learn intimate, private details about our lives. The privacy enhancing technologies required to make bulk surveillance impossible and targeted surveillance more difficult already exist. We just need to start using them. Christopher Soghoian, Principal Technologist at ACLU Hacked by a YouTube cat - revealing network injection appliances The only thing you need to do to render your computer’s secrets transparent to prying eyes is watch a cute cat video on YouTube . That and catch the interest of a nation-state or law enforcement agency that has $1 million or so to spare. This is how it works.