Redden: No, not really. I'm very pessimistic at this point. I added the chapter late in the writing process. I'd been laying out all these new and developing surveillance technologies and I thought, this is awfully depressing, I want to give the readers some hope. So I proposed a number of things which I thought could at least curtail the growth of the snitch culture, but they would require Congress and the state legislatures to completely reverse years of giving law enforcement agencies everything they want.

And even when the powers that be admit they've made a mistake, they don't cut back on the surveillance programs. There have been a number of major news stories published recently about how much harm the War on Drugs has done to African-Americans. Even Clinton admitted the harsher penalties for crack cocaine are wrong. But that isn't stopping the government from coming up with more bogus reasons to expand the drug war.