My response:
1. Disagree. I think surveillance / wiretapping of one of your own citizens
can be OK even if he's not already a criminal or has a history of wrongdoing.
If there's probable cause, enough to get a warrant from a judge, then merely
being a suspect is enough.
2. Agree. Making software companies intentionally weaken security is
terrible.
3. Disagree. Elevating egalitarian ideology above real-world facts is always
bad, but especially when doing so objectively increases the danger to
national security and even public safety. In the real world, not all
demographic groups are precisely equally likely, down to multiple decimal
places, to do the same thing. Spies for China are overwhelmingly likely to
be ethnic Chinese. Jihadists are overwhelmingly likely to be from a heavily
or traditionally Muslim ethnicity. Resources are limited and it simply makes
sense to focus more on higher-risk targets.
4. Agree. Free license agreements are and should continue to be treated as
legally binding.
5. Agree. I'm unaware of any information acquired via official government
surveillance being sold for cash, but that would of course be a huge scandal.
