A logical inference.<p>Given:<p>Things like mass phone surveillance, passively breaking legitimate encryption used by non criminals, introducing vulnerabilities, and other <i>plainly illegal</i> behavior is being deployed against citizens<p>..with no recourse..<p>..which are answered with outright lies when challenged (c.f. Snowden, Clapper&#x27;s lies before Congress)..<p>..and the methods are of dubious actual effectiveness when it comes to &quot;keeping people safe&quot;<p>..and they in fact <i>reduce</i> safety when it comes to introducing vulnerabilities which can be misused by criminals<p>Therefore:<p>The aims of said behavior is plainly not to &quot;keep people safe&quot;, but some other alterior motive. Simple statistics show that garden variety cybercriminals are a more real threat to the average person than terrorists - so do no statisticians work for the feds, or is there a different plan we&#x27;re not seeing?