So along with surveillance video, unauthorized wiretaps, cellphone location, and all of the other intrusive technologies, we can now expect to be spied on from above as well. Unless we get real privacy laws in place, the only real privacy will be when we're dead.

Gibbs might be in Ventura, Calif. Try to find him at backspin@gibbs.com and follow him on Twitter (@quistuipater) and on Facebook (quistuipater).

in Network World's Wide Area Network section.