In all that is the “Meh” of the revelations of the extent of NSA monitoring domestic communications, here is an analogy to help better understand what it is that we are dismissing.

The NSA is not engaging in direct action, where active monitoring and interception of communications is done.  Whew! But what is it that they are doing? Our understanding of the space that is cyber space is giving society a bit of a conceptual block.  To resolve this understanding of the problem we will use analogy.  We are going to transform cyberspace into the real world of three dimensions. Here, the geeks running the NSA data centers are the beat cops, the sort we see driving around town. Continue reading →