Is revolution coming?

We've just about crossed the point of no return - the level of technological surveillance we've got makes it nearly impossible to organize any sort of revolution without getting found out and stopped. There's still encryption (providing the NSA hasn't found some way of factoring large primes, which is a serious question give that they hire essentially all of the world's top mathematicians), but even that may not be enough.

How ya doing, buddy?

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I'm not an expert in any of this. At all. But watching our generation (you, me, people here, people on the internet) constantly create some kind of ruckus in reality or even on the internet, I have faith that the "revolution," if ever there were to be one, would start here.

While the Internet is faster and of wider reach, it's also much easier to monitor, censor, and shut down.

While I can't claim to be an "expert", I'm about 2 classes (plus a semester of electives) away from a Bachelor's in Computer Science with a minor in Criminal Justice and a specialization in Security. I've interviewed with the NSA, and read up on their habits for a while. Quite frankly, even their capabilities that we're aware of terrify me, and it's literally just the tip of the iceberg - for every power we know they have, they have 9 more powerful ones that we don't.

If they ever perceived anything as a threat, they'd likely DDOS all the servers and core leaders, call the ISPs to have the connections permanently severed, and send in the troops - and long before anything ever got to court it would have fallen apart. To be honest, while I don't see the government as needing civilian overthrowing, the very real possibility that it could get to the point where such a thing is impossible does scare me.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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It's just really disheartening to think that the people who founded a government on which we were able to revolt when we weren't happy with the way things are going COULDN'T actually revolt because it is suddenly considered criminal.

Well technically it was considered criminal when they did it in 1776 too.

As far as what they consider "threats" - sadly, they draw the bar rather low, and I'm not familiar with the court precedent on "free speech" versus "conspiracy for treason/rebellion", but something tells me that free speech isn't winning.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.