I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s right to use historical numbers on terrorism to do a cost&#x2F;benefit analysis of whether surveillance is worth it. The technology of today is vastly empowering, and that power can (and eventually will) be used by terrorists to inflict casualties orders of magnitude larger than what we&#x27;ve seen in the past. While the NSA currently seems ham-fisted, I do believe that we&#x27;ll have to accept greater government scrutiny and less personal privacy in the future.