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Re:DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Sc... by csense on Saturday July 15, 2017 @12:08PM (#14777357)
What's the end-game of the war on terror? What victory condition do we need to achieve to get terrorists to stop attempting massacres, so we can unwind these security measures?
Re:DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Sc... by mmirate on Saturday July 15, 2017 @12:55PM (#14777603)
Oh, that's the beauty of it all.

There is no end. No end to the war, and thus no end to the profitability of the U.S.'s contracted armament/defense manufacturers. And no end to the citizens' willingness to trade away their essential freedoms for a feeling of safety.

Re:DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Sc... by avckp on Saturday July 15, 2017 @01:02PM (#14777633)
I probably will never visit USA. I am only worried as this might set a precedent for others and contribute to the pro-surveillance governments round the globe. Can't Trump be tricked into disapproving this?
Re:DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Sc... by maxxxxx on Saturday July 15, 2017 @01:32PM (#14777824)
There is no endgame. Even if terrorism stops the security measures will be used for any kind of inconvenient people. I think this will get worse until some kind of revolution or big war will rewind the clock.
Re:DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Sc... by megous on Saturday July 15, 2017 @01:35PM (#14777844)
End game is escalation to more regional wars and more terrorism. Hard to see something else if response to terrorism is destruction of entire cities and driving former inhabitants further into poverty and ignorance.

My guess.

Re:DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Sc... by closeparen on Saturday July 15, 2017 @05:11PM (#14778968)
When the world no longer contains young men with nothing to lose and the feeling that they are victims of oppression.

The beauty of the War on Terror is that if we are ever at risk of running out of terrorists in the world, it'll make some new ones.