I don't really know what to think about this...

I'm saying nothing!

But I'm a grumpy opinionated old bastard, so I will speak!
Nice closing line to the link;
Once again, the Powers cannot catch the Real Villains, so the ordinary people pay with undermined freedoms.

- People smuggle drugs and carry bombs and weapons on aircraft, so we all get scanned, while drug traders still trade and terrorists still commit moronic atrocities.
- Street crime still happens, and businesses get broken into. To appear to be protective, at least of company profits, we are all on TV somewhere or other, in most cities. Crime continues, but now the dudes in ski masks can say, "Hey, man, I'm on Australia's Most Wanted!"
- Al Quaeda blow things up and ram buildings with aircraft. But despite a war on terror which in despair diverted itself to other targets, Osama got away. And we all get attention for posting emails with words like "terror", "holy war", or "jihad" and there are some words we just can't joke about in an airport or aircraft.

Now the Air Force computers are not bullet-proof, we are all going to be policed. The rednecks will say, so what, if you have nothing to hide? Well, in China, people should have nothing to hide if they Google for websites about democracy. What if, in years to come, Googling for "Democrat" or "Republican", "gay rights", "ecology", or "free speech", will put a mark by your name for re-education?

Trust the USAF to go for carpet bombing and an acceptable level of collateral damage! How about a little laser-guidance in the approach? Sure, the technology will cost, but it won't cost freedom; and nobody complains that laser guidance is dearer than merely dropping a dumb bomb and taking a chance on hitting a school. Make the cost worthwhile by making the penalties for the real offenders, whether hackers, predators or terrorists, very, very serious, so it's no longer fun to tap into a defence computer, groom a schoolkid to satisfy what the law quaintly calls a prurient interest, or release a virus.