Colonel Mustard:  Why is J. Edgar Hoover on your phone?
Wadsworth:  I don’t know, he’s on everybody else’s, why shouldn’t he be on mine?

— Clue

My biggest fear with this whole NSA scandal is that it will blow over. People are already getting used to the idea that someone, be it government or private companies, is watching and tracking them, and that worries me. Normalization of the surveillance state leads to its acceptance. There are just too many places where it can be abused, and those who do the watching have no watchers of their own, and they are far from angels.