I think this shows the state of our intel community. They've been focused on wide-net operations. If a target is high enough of an asset, why not go the easiest route of installing booby-trapped login screens, hardware keyloggers and what not? It's the easiest and most effective way to spy on someone (I'm sure they already do this.) This is all a ploy to spy on citizens. Period.
You can probably read into this that their political masters are asking questions like "why can't you tell us who these 'lone-wolves' are before they attack?".
That's a good point, but I don't think the tools used to aggregate and analyze all this data is sharp enough to find the needle of a lone wolf in such a large haystack that's the internet. The signal-to-noise on the internet is ridiculously low. Then again, I may be wrong.
