The government and business have built a state of surveillance far beyond anything dreamt of a couple of decades ago, with massive continuing investment.<p>Yet the tool of surveillance was unable to stop this attack. Now they want more surveillance, but maybe it&#x27;s the wrong tool for this job.<p>Surveillance seems to have reached that place on the technology adoption curve where people get a little over-enthusiastic and blindly think it solves every problem, and they haven&#x27;t yet realized it&#x27;s a tool which, like all tools, is good for for things but not for others.<p>(That ignores the massive cost to individuals and to our societies of surveillance.)