I've been thinking about this internet freedom movement quite a bit lately & I am convinced the single most powerful thing we can do is to come out of our anonymous hiding places & publicly declare our intentions. That's why I created my freedom.txt & hope others will do same: http://fr.anc.is/freedom.txt

When the people who are targeted, are the ones who avoid being caught, the result will be near zero.

We need intelligent accounting here.

For example, when the result of this law is: We spent 100 Million to catch 0 terrorists and 20 people for minor felonies.

Is it in the public interest to pay 5 Million for catching a person who downloaded an illegal movie?

The politicians should be accountable for these things, or they should say in advance "we try this for a month and if it doesn't work or is inefficient we stop it".

I also know that statistics are often manipulated, but that is another problem.

I think this goes back to how politicians are deathly afraid of ever, anywhere, being wrong. This seems to even preclude improving/changing their own positions on most things.

There is nothing wrong with realizing you were wrong and changing your opinion, rather there is something wrong with hanging onto a belief or opinion when the pile of evidence is not only against you but continues to grow.

Bonus points for modifying the firmware on the SD card so that it looks like 1 gig at the low level.

I guess you could literally eat a MicroSD card and deliver it safely and intact in another country. This would even make it better than smuggling something the old way (swallowing a condom) because an air bubble has the chance of showing up in an x-ray. A MicroSD card would likely be completely invisible. Any copper would obviously show up, but the amount is likely to be indistinguishable from the iron we digest and the iron in our blood that is concentrated around our intestinal walls.