Maybe it is time to finish this blog? The terror act caused by one single person in Norway, 22nd of July, at Utöya, gave new insight in something that annoyed me for a long time and that have been given attention in this blog - motifs. The motives needed to convince me that it would be necessary to monitor communication among ordinary citizens. Communication that may be e-mails, comments in chat fora or other discussion groups on Internet. We have now seen an "ordinary" citizen, a young man in Norway, planning and using Internet to thrive and to gain input to his twisted thoughts and fear. The biggest fear according to him was the invasion of muslims into Western Europe.
We cannot know whether surveillance on digital communication would have been sufficient to give rise to any alerts regarding his terror plans. There are motifs enough that individuals like him cannot prosper around in Internet without getting any attention. We have police forces and security police in IRL, trying to identify threats to society and public. I wouldn't argue for a "free space" like Internet where it would be allowed to become absolutely anonymous.
