Gilmore’s stance, just like his position on open relays, is a classic ivory tower proclamation unlikely to change behavior in the trenches.
Spying on potential enemies outside your legal and economic control is appropriate and responsible statecraft that can (and has) saved millions of lives, and things more important than lives, as Master Sun pointed out over 2000 years ago. Spying on your citizenry is a different matter… that should be done by elderly neighborhood busybodies, and not by the state.
