Backlit keyboard is reflected in screen of Apple Macbook Pro notebook computer in Warsaw February 6, 2012. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Files (REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE)
HONG KONG: Terrorism will cast a continuing shadow over future generations and government electronic surveillance is a small price to pay to combat it, a leading historian said on March 23, a day after the carnage in Brussels.
British author and journalist Sir Max Hastings gave a robust defence of electronic intelligence-gathering in what he called a new world that would never know absolute security.
