Whilst wandering around a Berlin Christmas market with surveillance-concerned friends from ten different countries last night, we came up with a lovely holiday song for you all (with a little help from Twitter friends*). From the bottom:
On the twelfth day of Christmas, the NSA gave to me:
Twelve days of torture,
Eleven days in prison,
Ten FISA orders,
Nine Clapper head rubs,
Eight legs a-reaching,
Seven pens a-trapping,
Six drones a-spying,
Five Eyes spying,
Four viruses,
Three Fins a-Fishing,
Two hacked phones,
And a rootkit malware on my laptop.
*Thanks to: @astepanovich, @joncamfield, @jessecfriedman, @quinnnorton, @ChrChristensen, @octal, @sleepylemur, and @xeenarh for your contributions!