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+The role military intelligence has played both internationally and
+domestically has greatly increased following modern developments and
+continues to rapidly expand.
+
+\section{Surveillance in powerful systems}
+
+A government may get involved in the regular surveillance of its
+citizens for many reasons. The interception of communications are
+readily visible (inelegant) including the interception of mail in the
+American colonies by the British in the years before the American
+Revolution. This also included the change and destruction of
+information, yet the purpose remains the same as modern surveillance:
+to watch over citizens that the ruling authority does not trust or
+claims cannot be trusted. Those who wish to monitor modern electronic
+communications may suggest that such an operation exists in the
+interest of the safety of the public, by stopping crime and terrorism.
+
+\section{The Stasi}
+
+The methods of the Stasi are often described as inducing fear in
+citizens.
+
+\section{The present day}
+
+The traditional means by which enforcement authorities may investigate
+an individual or organisation is by obtaining permission to do so on
+the basis of adequate suspicion of illegal activity. Such a
+requirement prevents the unnecessary and ongoing violation of
+individual rights that may be considered highly present in societies
+around the world, enabled in part or in whole by modern technology.
+
+In a sense, modern technology could have been the ultimate enabler for
+privacy. The promise of modern encryption is such that a communication
+physically cannot be read by anyone other than the intended recipient,
+and the decentralised nature of the internet could mean an escape from
+central authorities in our communication such as a governmental postal
+service.
+
+\section{The future}
+
+\section{Conclusions}
+
+\input{ending.tex}