No, not yet, but they certainly can be.  Handing this technology to the next J. Edgar Hoover -- and rest assured, there <i>will</i> be a next J. Edgar Hoover, even if Comey isn&#x27;t him -- will be like giving an atomic bomb to that kid in high school that everybody was pretty sure would end up in jail.<p>If the judges and politicians had half a brain, they&#x27;d understand that they, and not us, will be the first to experience the downsides of a security state gone berserk.