“Practically non-existent. I am not the carrier of any important information. All the data which I can publish is there, on remote servers, and will become property of the public anyway. Already practically nothing depends on me.” “Nothing at all?” “I don’t want to talk on this topic now,” Kold evaded the question and turned to the TV. The next question came out: “President Obama declared that surveillance programs have allowed us to prevent 50 terrorist attacks. Taking into account that these programs started soon after 9/11, how many terrorist attacks were prevented due to information collected by programs similar to BRISM which couldn’t be obtained by other means?” “He won’t answer that,” Kold quickly told. Wyden answered carefully: “Yes, that is a good question and I don’t want t

