The third world is utterly fucking doomed to an eternity of indentured servitude if people in the first world don't stand up against those who might implement a global electronic panopticon.

The second world, meanwhile, is likely to collapse and fall prey to assimilation by the inevitable first world borg collective, if they're prevented from committing thermonuclear suicide first.

If the first world doesn't save us from itself, then who will?

The guy came off as somewhat of a twat based on that. OK, people are dying in Africa. Does that make NSA spying ok?

He ended a little better by making the point that we should be doing more than just talking, we should be building technical defenses against such things as NSA spying. It's a reasonable point, but I think he was just trying to be edgy in his talk.

If the NSA put their resources towards educating and empowering third world children instead of perpetuating their oppression and spying on them, they could easily fund and equip the "One Supercomputer Per Child" project.

Given that any number of people who have died in Africa post World War II did so because of the "great game" between the US and Soviets, spook action is likely the direct result of those deaths he professes to lament.